>In the DataEnvironment I delete a table (the first, primary cursor) and then add a view in its place. Problem is, it's not recognized as the first cursor. How can I move it up? Since the other tables in the dataenvironment are read-only, at run-time I get a message that it's read-only. The only way I know to correct the problem was to delete everything in the DataEnvironment and then start over again, adding the View first then the read-only tables (and then re-bind them), and then presto, the message went away. Isn't there a better way?

Set InitialSelectedAlias to the name of this view. You can add this in Load event of your form:
Thisform.DataEnvironment.InitialSelectedAlias='MyViewName'