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PROBLEM SOLVED! (I think... of course, after I'd already done this Lizard posted to say I'd done the equivalent of "crossing the streams" in Ghostbusters. Only time will tell.)

I simply made a backup of my DB to the desktop, viewed the contents, opened that single .zip file with "Stuffit Archive Manager" and purged all of the gargantuan embedded files. Once I was done, a 32 MB file had been slimmed down to a mere 228 KB (now 232 KB after modifying an item).

Overall, my sense is that I hit some data-gremlins a while back, and all of these files got sucked into my DB inappropriately. After making this change in the "backup" DB, then reloading that DB as a "Restore", I do not seem to be experiencing strange behavior. Well, not unless you call iPhone sync times that don't stretch on forever "strange".

I think I've had stuff like this in my DB for ages, so I'll see how things go post-cleaning.

Let me know if you guys want any of my DB backup files with the bloat; maybe you can figure out how it happened (or, even better, build in an automatic correction function in a future build!)

Thanks again,

J