While I will offer some suggestions below, please double check with Softrak as I am not certain that our situations are related as you seem to have more varied error messages than I remember.

I also have a client who periodically experiences similar problems when using the Finders in OE (and AR). This was in a Win2K3 Server environment with Win2K/WinXP Pro workstations and CheckSys reporting no problems.

The problems seem to have been sorted when we removed the following Finder related files:

??FCTL'I.xxx
??FCTL'R.xxx
??F###'I.xxx (eg. "OEF001'I.DAT")
??F###'R.xxx (eg. "OEF001'R.DAT")

These files are recreated on loading the relevant module and when the Finders are invoked.

Try moving (rather than deleting) these files to a temporary location , exit and restart the module and test again.

Unfortunately, after a while the problem recurrs and the files have to be removed again. It appears that the finder files are being corrupted in some way and may be more noticeable on networks with large data and multiple users performing many finder searches.

Hope this helps.

Regards, Pete