>Lincoln,
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>In regards to your first question, this is a known bug in the View Designer. If you need to construct views made up of more than 2 tables do it progromatically using CREATE VIEW AS SQL .........
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Just to add to that bug description :), that you actually can create views with more than one table if they are joined in chain, but not with parallel joins. And after you created such a view programmatically, don't try to open it in View Designer, it will be screwed up again.