Bill,

>Due to the fact that VFPCOM's Cursor/Recordset conversion routines are buggy, what good alternatives are there? What other mechanisms are at our disposal for using ADO RS's across the COM boundary, but still leveraging VFP data manipulation internally within our COM Servers?

http://www.west-wind.com/webconnection/docs/wwxmlcursortoadoxml.htm

and look at the sample code there for reading into ADO recordset.