Thanks to everyone for their help. I've tried incorporating several of the good suggestions and here is what I get. The report is 11-12 pages long depending on the version. Printer environment is NOT saved, the report has been packed. All times listed below are to PREVIEW. In all cases the same exact code is running. In each case of 9.0, ENGINEBEHAVIOR is set to 70.

FOXPRO 7.0: Less than 1 second, no time difference when previewing from page to page.

FOXPRO 9.0, reportbehavior = 80: 64 seconds, previewing to the next page takes just as long.

FOXPRO 9.0, report behavior = 90, using reportoutput.app and reportpreview.app that come with VFP: 400 seconds

Again, the report has no pictures or graphics.