>I was thinking that there was either an official place for VFP .DLLs or there were special transaction settings, etc in one of the "pre-made" apps that I "should use".

Nope, AFAIK, the pre-existing apps are for system use. You're unlikely to break anything by putting your VFP components in there, but I don't think that's per spec.

>I guess not, so it would probably be safe to create an MTS package (in NT4) and set it up the way I want it and let it install in a new app under NT4 and Win2K, right?

Yup. I do it all the time, and it works just fine. You know you can automate this stuff via COM, right? :-)