Andrew:

OK, I did the followingf:

1. uninstalled ff80
2. downloaded the latest ff80setup.exe.
3. installed ff80
4. noted that the fll's with the appropriate tiemstamps were present in \6XLIBS

However, now I have the following issues:

1. can't seem to get the latest copy of ff80 activated. i'm told the activation number is no good. visiting the foxfire website indicates i have zero activations remaining. please note that the uninstall/reinstall of ff80 occurred on the same computer.
2. i ran the upgrade routine on my 3.0+ preference (report) sets again to test. I now get a different series of errors in addition to the api library mismatch error. It starts with "SQL: Column 'REQID' is not found", which (predictably) results in a number of other errors, and eventually ends up with the API library revision mismatch error. then foxfire appears to start. as i've mentioned before, i'm really not able to test much, because the upgraded report sets do not function and throw other errors. i figure we'll tackle those once we work thru the others...

Regards, Stanley Finch