Thank You for your quick reply Sue.  Thats what I Thought.  By the way, do
you recommend one over any other.

The programmer taking on the project has been learning as he goes and its
not going well.    To allow each user access to a subset of records he has
created secondary contact folders using the method I have seen you descibe
for sharing contacts in a peer to peer environment using a distributed PST
containing shared contacts that are added to a users prpofile. The
propgrammer populates each contact folder on each users desktop each evening
with any new "Business System" customers that have been added in customer
order entry, that would be considered "Their" customers.  He has then  
written custom forms that he is trying to prpopogate to these machines into
the shared Contacts profile as he makes modifications, but he has been having
a nightmare of a time with his propogation methodology and not all contact
updates are occurring nor are all custom form updates occurring on each
desktop.  I see nothing wrong with his custom forms work, but his peer to
peer method of distributing the contacts, and related activities and custom
forms is where the system is braeking down  For example I spoke with 3 users
today and none of them can ADD new contacts to their Company Contacts List.  
They must be added via the update the prpogrammer is doing from the ERP
package and this is not the only time they shoudl be added (i.e. prospects).  
The custom forms on one persons pc are not as current as the custom forms on
another... etc.  My theory was that to simplify deployment he could simply
create a public folder for each Contact list associated with each rep and
keep them updated with new customers each night with an upload from our ERP
system.  Also his Custom Forms, which as I indicated seem to work well would
inherently be the same for all users.  My question is if I have a cutom
Folder containing contacts and I look at Activities... How dows it Link
Emails, and Tasks to that Contact?

Thanks,

Joe