Scott, Anthony- Thanks for the info. I guess I'll have to work around this... oddity. Supposedly we're supposed to be moving to sql2k within 6 months (could we be ANY more behind the times?!) and win2k, so that should solve the issue. Chris Blessing webguy at mail.rit.edu http://www.330i.net > Basically NewID() in SQL7 is buggy - however it works > fine in SQL2k. > > http://www.sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=8747 >