Tom,

So the only way the children files would be recreated is if I initiated 
it through code?  I ask this because to my knowledge I don't have any 
code to re-index the table, yet the files were recreated.

This issue has come about because I was looking at doing incremental 
backups, but have read this wasn't a good ideal due to the children file 
issue.  My thought was if I had to do a restore of a db, then I could 
just delete the children and have paradox recreate them.