Rick,
It made me laugh to think that it might be unstable!! How funny! :-) Well I've been writing everything using the RichText still and am getting ready to see if I can't reach inside the control to grab the handles to the Bitmap Objects and then remanipulate them with the ACTUAL BITMAP rather than the cursor representation of the bitmap.
I may be ordering in Delphi 4 to build an ActiveX control out of one of the controls built using their RichText control. Several people in the Delphi arena have created some WYSIWYG controls using it. It's pretty quick to build a control using Delphi. Plus VFP seems to host it very well.
Another note: I found a company called Devexpress at:
http://www.devexpress.com these guys have a very impressive set of controls. Just thought you would be interested to see them as a comparison to Data Dynamics.
Rich