I think I found what is going on with my payroll. In my DBAMFG directory where the programs are, there is a copy of bkprinfo.b file which should not have been there.
 
Last week I had tried to run Maintain Database for the first time in several years, after many updates. The files I wanted to open could not be found. I ran the file path utility to set the file locations. I found that there were no files locations set prior to this, but my system still worked (except for Maintain Database) found the different company directories and files with no problem. Prior to setting the file locations with the utility though, payroll was updating the prbkinfo.b file that was in the DBAMFG directory. The system must be using some other file location method if to find the data files if no file locations were set using the utilty I used in Maintain Database last week.
 
I think I can just move the good PRBKINFO from the DBAMFG directory to the \default directory to fix my problem.
 
If anybody sees that I should do something different, please let me know.
 
Thanks