Thanks again, but still no go.

When validated, the second field named "Status" changes from "inactive" to "active"

However, with the code you supplied above inserted into db.cgi, a search still returns a record which has Status=inactive (is it because 'active' is part of in'active'?)

I tried the search form with uid=default... I have the cfg so that you do not need to login to search, but I don't think this should change things?

Thanks again.