Bret,

>>I personally use only default option buttons, but that's me...
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>I'll tell you what I'm doing. I realized that option buttons that have no caption have no visual cue when they get focus (same for check boxes). Also, the option group as a whole has no visual cue. I'm checking their captions, and replacing the empty ones with " ", and then setting the .Backstyle to 0 - Transparent (which is not the default) so there won't be a smudge under the seemingly empty label. The visual cue is a little odd - a sort of rectangle next to the button, but it's not bad. Sometimes labels work better than a control's own caption, and then I need things like this.
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>If I need any other changes to default option button properties, I'll add them here. Mike's idea of adding a method is a good one, too.

I do the same as Nick. My cOptionGroup class has an Init() method:

* propogate container BackStyle to option buttons

with this
.SetAll( "BackStyle", .BackStyle )

if ( ! .Enabled ) && 11-Oct-98 handle disabled initial state
.Enable( .Enabled )
endif
endwith

Can I ask why you have no caption option buttons?