Let me re-formulate my question and post my solutions so far, since I've learned a bit since I originally posted it:

Question:
How do I force all my private data sessions to share a common set of settings (ANSI, ...)?


Answer:
The best way that I know of so far is to put a call in the base form's Load method. The disadvantage seems to be that if I do not have NODATAONLOAD set, then the data I pull for a view might not be what I'm expecting.

What I'd like to do is to subclass the DE, override the BeforeOpenTables event and put the code in there.

Bob