I need to create a routine of selecting (using SQL Select) only certain fields from a table/cursor. The fields that are to be selected should not be hard coded into the SQL Select.

You may want to download Andy's white paper and code samples from his conference session entitled "Class Based Data Management". You will find it on the Tools and Utilities page of our web site. It is a data-driven approcah to wrapping SPT, but it can also be used with native VFP databases.