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> The client says that they have no program specs to help me in determining
> how many screens I have to work with here. Also, there is no existing help
> to guide me on what I'm looking at here so I have to guess what field
> descriptions mean.
>
> Any suggestions would be DEEPLY appreciated in sorting out this mess.
If the data is stored in a database, there must be some field definition
information for the database and there should be a detalied database design
if it is at all complex. Ask the developers and the database admins.