trouble: joining more than 2 tables

Hello, I am having a little trouble with joining more that two tables. I can join two tables but once I start to add more tables to the WHERE clause only two records show up. I am still pretty new to MySQL, but I am learing. I am just stuck on this one in hopes someone will show me the light. I tried reading the manual and used there samples but this is as far as I got and seems to work but only some what. Here is my query I am trying to use in DreamweaverMX (this one pulls up only 2 records, I have seven records for test purpose): -SELECT instockID, instock.materialCode, instock.treatmentCode, instock.bulkCode, instock.shapeCode, instock.calibrate, instock.price, -material.materialName, material.sDiscription, material.matImage1, -shape.shapeName, bulk.bulkName, treatment.treatmentName - -FROM instock, material, shape, bulk, treatment - -WHERE instock.materialCode = 'colname' AND -instock.shapeCode = shape.shapeCode AND -instock.bulkCode = bulk.bulkCode AND -instock.treatmentCode = treatment.treatmentCode AND -instock.materialCode = material.materialCode - -ORDER BY instock.shapeCode ASC This one I can pull all seven records but I need more information from the other tables that is related to the instock table. -SELECT instock.instockID, instock.materialCode, instock.treatmentCode, instock.bulkCode, instock.shapeCode, instock.calibrate, instock.price, -material.materialName, material.sDiscription, material.matImage1 - -FROM instock, material - -WHERE instock.materialCode = 'colname' AND -instock.materialCode = material.materialCode AND -instock.shapeCode = shape.shapeCode - -ORDER BY instock.shapeCode ASC Could someone help me and show me an other way in writting the top queries. Thanks, David