The symptoms indicate that the database is partially corrupted.

Delete the record, and then compact the database:
Tools | Database Utilities | Compact

If you cannot delete the record, this article describes various ways of
rebuilding the database:
Recovering from Corruption
at:
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-47.html

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"TRM" wrote in message
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I have had a problem with a record "turning into garbage"
so to speak. I have no idea what or how this happened,
this DB is on a server, but one day the users couldn't
access this specific record. The record now contains
only fragments of the original record; most of it
is "gibberish", what appears to be Chinese, or Japanese
letters.

Anyone ever have this happen before and what might be the
cause?!

THANKS!