>I do run some report cleanup code from back before we had the report printer environment option, but that only affects the first record of the report.
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>It seems distinctly possible that this is a "feature" of the compilation process which would reduce the overall size of the .EXE, however, surely there's an option to turn this behavior off?

VFP doesn't do anything like that. If fields get blanked out than something in your code does that.