Thanks all for the input. As always,the information is helpful and welcomed.

Just to add

Apon arrivail back here (USA) I submitted my filled ( Thai-Cambodia) passport for renewal and recieved my new one no problem( "they" certainly knew where I was traveling)

I read there is a "chip" enbeded in the passport cover,with "my" information on it...what that is I do not know

I also heard-read ?? there would be swip machines at the Bangkok airport ( other airports too)for these chips and possibly fingerprints ( anyone know about this??)

I am a "good person" not a cimminal. I have a past and that is where my problems lay. I work hard and follow the law.I just want to come back to my wife and "live happy future".Of the three farangs I know around "my" village two have records (not american) and they seem to get by. I worry about my return and stay to the point of sleeplessness. I love Thailand and all's crazyness. Just want a quite (yeah! in Thailand?? ) end of life.

Thanks deesurin

The information on the chip is just what is in the passports except its read by different technology.