Jeff wrote:
> > I also don't believe that the Palm code guarantees

> > that 
> > unique ID won't be 
> > duplicated.  
> 
> True, but it's pretty unlikely.

Didn't you mention you're writing this for a
healthcare
application?  Ask your users if "pretty unlikely"
is good enough when the result could be mixing up
patients and their test results ;-)

I am using an approach similar to the one outlined
by Brad in one of my applications.

Interesting thread -- thanks for starting it.

Oliver


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