Hi Evan,

>My questions (for those that are still reading).
>1) Is this an indication that my design is flawed

There are some bugs in the RI, fortunatly Steve Sawyer has his own verion available some where, and Doug Henning has an article about changing the RI builder/wizard to Fix up some bugs and replace the rest with Steve's in a FoxTalk. I've got no clue on the date, but should not be hard to find.