>1) Enabling/Disabling controls for the current record. Sould effect the first displayed record when the forms starts and consequent movement of record pointer.

A custom method on the form that will do this for you. However, IMO, its better to always leave the records editable. See Windows GUI standards for my reasoning on this.

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>2) Checking for & Generating default records on a table by table basis when the app starts.

In your startup code someplace.

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>3) Is there an after record pointer move method for a form.

No. Forms don't know anything about data.