>>First explain why you are asking the users where the data is?
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>>It seems to me that if you're using relative pathing with a data directory, the shortcut key should take care of the rest. You would need to add a path command though.
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>I am not real sure where the user is going to install the application, and I defintely don't know where the data will reside every time. So I thought I would "get by" with it hardcoded for now, and would get some ideas from the True Gurus (TM) on how to softcode this.

I may not fall into the True Guru :) LOL but I do have some experience. I would strongly reccommend having subdirectories such as Data/ Graphics / Reports. You might want to add FoxFire or another Ad-Hoc report writer so you would have to distribute those separately. Using relative pathing you should not have any difficulties. You would not need to know where they are installing the software as long as in the installation process these subdirectories are created underneath.