Terry,
Bound data works
GREAT with multiple tables/views in a single form, and multiple instances of those forms in a completely modeless environment. Multi-user is also easily supported with a little bit of update conflict handling code.
I think you threw the baby out with the bath water because of some misunderstood concept.
>Bound data works pretty good for for single table, modal forms, Although it seems slower than a hard assign to the value property. When I experiemented with buffering in multi-table forms, behavior was less than predictable.