I have run more tests and am verging on certainty that this is a conditional text problem - at least for my projects.
That is, I have three RH six RH projects linking to the same FM book. Three in English, three in Japanese. When I port the RH projects to a different directory and open them, I do not receive the relink request. If I attempt to update from the book, the project crashes and the cpd is corrupted. I can, however, delete the book and re-add by reference. I can only do this, though, for the project in English. When I try to do it for the Japanese projects, RH crashes completely. After the crash, I cannot delete the book, nor can I update, nor do anything much else. If I do continue trying to delete the book, the project becomes corrupted and useless. I am not completely convinced that the problem is a conditional text issue, however. As I noted, my buddy from the Philippines had the same crash scenarios, but he was not using conditional text that includes other languages. That is my story, and I am sticking with it. Charles