I am not sure why you had this occur. I tested on several machines to insure that I was messing with the proper fields and had no issues with it in any situation I could come up with. What is visually happening to your data and can you post your table structure as I am curious specifically where this becomes an issue to try and improve it. Also, I hope you made a backup of your data beforehand as I would hate to think you lost anything but I did state I make no guarantees as there is always the unknown factor to think about. If you did you may want to restore and try updating the server to SP4 and see if this fixes (please do on a test server to test), when doing the beta it seemed it has a hushed fix of this problem which probably showed other related situations as well. Also was the version an English version server?

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