>I'll do some thinking about this and decide wether I'll go with the table or take the .ini file approach. On the meantime I'll sit down and wait for the day when technology allows us to control executables at run time, then I'll have a toast and think of all the cool stuff that could be done with it.

The technology may have served you for this Christmass already. If I've read well what it says in the announcement for 6.1 (and I have read only someone's posting here, not the original article), it said "has an ability to compile .prg files at runtime". If this holds, you can always generate a .prg with

ValueOfThis="Some string"
ValueOfThat=1234549
DateValue={^19981225}

and then compile it and run at the end of the form's .init next time. You can choose a filename which is a combination of form's name and username, and thus have one for each. Easy, isn't it? OK, it clutters your disk with tiny files, but still...