>In several applications we are using public variables
>to store user info, a path to the data, and other misc.
>items. I know it's better not to use public variables,
>but I can't find another way to gain access to that
>information unless I store the info. in a table. Any
>suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

You can define a master class for your application and create as many properties as you need to store those information. You can then call those properties any time from your application like oApp.cMyProperty etc.