I've just upgraded to the beta4 in order to fix an RI deadlock we seemed to be having with 7.0.3 -- and it seems that one of the engineers has been writing some queries that cast a text field to an int and take advantage of the fact that we used to turn text fields with no digits into 0, much as C's atoi function works. The new behavior is to throw a parse error, which causes all kinds of problem. Is this intentional? I dimly remember seeing a whole lot of atoi discussion, but I can't seem to find it in my last two files of this mailing list. -- Adam Haberlach | All your base are belong to us. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.newsnipple.com | '88 EX500 '00 >^< |