Ah ha! Thanks, perrin! You put your finger on the problem. I changed the code to update the record with one variable, then read it back with a different one, and that solved the problem.

Is that the feature described in the 0.96 changes document as "Maintain live object index so subsequent requests for same row return the same object"? Or is that something else?

I'm going to have to take a look at our other programs, because I'm sure we have some that are going to be bitten by the same problem. Hmm....

Thanks again!