Thank all for replies to this. Something interesting I've just noticed after getting this working:

When I create a session object and reference from it the DE and then addobject 8 cursors with 11 megabytes involved, the time to instantiate everything and open the cursors is about .3 seconds. If I do the same thing but addobject the session object to a custom object, the time for everything to occur is only .004 seconds. The data is really there also as I can access any of the tables!! That was quite a surprise. Any ideas on this?