How I would love to be able to do that ( I do know how to use mySQL), but that is out of my hands. For now I am stuck with flat files. From what I can gather, you think it is a dumb idea to go about what I want to do (I wholeheartedly agree), but as I mentioned I am a little limited for other reasons.

"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?"-Sherlock Holmes in 'A study in scarlet'