my google of "Error: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] System resource exceeded." says that Access can raise that error if too many records are being returned, or the database tries to grow larger that 2 gigabytes.
do you know if either of those tow issues might be the problem?
Lowell
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