>OK I understand that these the SET items can get changed in a private datasession, but under what method of the form or datasession do I set them again. Thanks for your help!! This is killing me.
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In your base form class'es load method you can issue your set commands... make sure you set exclusive off.

I just did a test and it worked fine...

Create a form, set data session to private... in load put this code...

set exclusive off
open data mydatabase

Then I saved it...

In the command window I did...

set exclusive off
open data MyDataBase
* the database is now opened in the default session...
do form test1
* form opened with no errors... look at session window
set
* notice there is now a data session called form1

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