Ed,
If you need the information to be truly global and accesible by all forms then consider adding it to the application. Then it can be referenced by using goApp.property name. If it's a lot of information then consider creating a custom class and creating a custom object reference in the application. Then all the information can be accessed by the reference "goApp.oObject.property".

If you take this approach you can add code to the applications BeforeReadEvents() method to make sure everything is loaded correctly.

I hope this is what you were looking for.