If you use autonumbers to maintain the referential integrity of your database, sure autonumbers are important, but I agree with WayneRyan, the actual numbers are irrelevant, they are just unique numbers identifying each record.
The most common confusion when using autonumbers, as you would find thru a search, are that they are not intended to be sequental numbers. They leave gaps if you cancel new records. You cannot reuse "old" auotonumbers (deleted autonumbers), which is one of the reasons for the view shared among, I think a lot of/most Access developers, that the autonumber field should not be exposed to the user (or the other way around), so that there should not be any business meaning assosiated with it.
Sometimes they don't even provide unique numbers, creating dupe value in index..., which is a recognized bug/flaw in Access 2003, and I've read something about it also occuring in some multiusersettings.
Microsofts workaround for the bug, is resetting the autonumbers thru something like this:
strsql "alter table YourTable alter column YourAutoNum counter(N,M)"
docmd.runsql strsql
Where N represents "starting number"
M represents increment
see
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;884185