>Ok, clueless that I am, I don't believe I have buffering on my views. I understand the general idea of buffering but could someone explain this as it relates to views (and how I do it)?

A view works like a table. If you apply a buffer, when doing TABLEUPDATE() on it, the data will be saved into your related tables.

>Two things to note: (1) some of my views actually come from the joining of another view previously created and a table. Does this affect anything?

It should work.

>(2) I'm a bit confused with the View Designer's "Update Criteria" tab options. Specifically, I don't have any one key field(s) in these particular views. A combination of all 4 fields in the view results in a unique combination/key. I'm not sure then if I can use the "Key Field" and "Updatable" switches for my views. I've assumed I can't thus my rationale for trying to save the form data to the tables via code.

In order for the view to be able to update a field, it needs to have a key field. Otherwise, it won't be able to know the relation record.