It sounds to me like the real problem is with non-schema-aware client software.
They're using Office XP Developer (Access 2000). No hope of fixing that.
Don't be pessimistic - give Bill a call and see if he'll accept a patch...
Failing that, I wrote a small VBA procedure to do something very similar once. Wasn't difficult as I recall, but there was some irritating glitch with looping through linked tables. Can't remember what at the moment, and aren't near a Windows machine.
-- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
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