>Has the View Designer not been fixed in VFP 7 ? Is the problem with more than one child table still there? (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q156/6/67.ASP)

Take a look at File#9474 eView by Erik Moore. Summary : 'Utility for editing and maintaining views that are too complex for the view designer. Form based interface offers access to many features that the native view designer does not'.