Palm handles duplicate records thru IDs... (see my above listed code on adding a record). If you have the ID in the SQL DB (like I did on my project), and you make that field the unique record key, you can trap any duplicates from being added.

In other words, a record is only duplicate if you consider it duplicate :)

Greetz
Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.