System Catalog tables

I'm running Informix ONLINE 5.0 on an HP-UX 9.0 9000/832 I have two databases defined (student and gradsch) with multiple tables in each that have been in use for two years or more. When I do: tbcheck -cI -cD -q student I get: WARNING: No syscolauth records found. ISAM error: no record found. ERROR: No table found for syssynonyms record. Tabid 192 Server name Database Name gradsch Owner informix Table name studname Tabid of base table -2147483648 When I do: tbcheck -cI -cD -q gradsch I get: WARNING:No syscolauth records found. WARNING:No sysdepend records found. WARNING:No syssyntable records found. WARNING:No sysviews records found. These messages have been happening for some time, probably since I started running these tbcheck commands. Everything seems to work ok I just think there ought to be a way to get rid of these obnoxious messages. So I discovered that the command tbcheck -cI -cD -q dbname actually does the I and D and then gets confused and also does a -cc. Evidently you can't do this like you would a normal Unix command. So when I run: tbcheck -cI -q student and tbcheck -cD - q student there is no output. When I run: tbcheck -cc -q I get: WARNING:No syscolauth records found. WARNING:No sysdepend records found. WARNING:No syssyntable records found. WARNING:No sysviews records found. WARNING:No syscolauth records found. (Twice?) ISAM error: no record found. ERROR: No table found for syssynonyms record. Tabid 192 Server name Database Name gradsch Owner informix Table name studname Tabid of base table -2147483648 WARNING:No syscolauth records found. WARNING:No sysdepend records found. WARNING:No syssyntable records found. WARNING:No sysviews records found. Notice that the above output does not indicate which database it's referring to. By setting up a Perform screen for the student:syssyntable there is one row and it contains the above information. I have set up the following synonyms: DATABASE gradsch; CREATE SYNONYM s_mcodes FOR student:mcodes; CREATE SYNONYM s_academic FOR student:academic DATABASE student; CREATE SYNONYM sn FOR gradsch:studname I run UPDATE STATISTICS at appropriate times with no change and no problems. Reading the manual 'INFORMIX Guide to SQL Reference version 4.10 it talks about these tables but as near as I can determine, it doesn't say how the data gets into them. The table studname is in the database gradsch so how did this row get in the student:syssyntable instead of the gradsch:syssyntable? Do I dare 'Delete' the row in student:syssyntable and re-enter it in gradsch:syssyntable? Thanks for any suggestions, Dick