I also observe that when I restart the central replication server, the deleted entries do get deleted upon the remote slaves (as expected, I guess). Anyone else seeing this behaviour, or is it just me? -- Dave Horsfall DTM VK2KFU daveh@ci.com.au Ph: +61 2 8425-5508 (d) -5500 (sw) Corinthian Engineering, Level 1, 401 Pacific Hwy, Artarmon, NSW 2064, Australia