[pam dmonium]

After spending way more time on this than I should have, I finally got
it to work. Although I have no idea why what I did works.

I tried renaming the data source file, but that didn't fix it. So I
moved the file to the same directory as the merge doc itself. I
reconnected and saved and now when she opens the file, voila! it
connects. It is annoying as it should have worked with the data file
on c. But who am I to question.

Thank you, Peter, for you help. Have a nice weekend.