>In the hackers guide to VFP pg 374 Tamar speaks of a weakness with regard to subclassing the base form class, saying you can't store a DE with them. So, I accepted this and tried to issue a set relation command in the load method, but still having no luck in establishing a relationship between a parent and child table. What is the best way to do this if, I must subclass the base form?

If you do it in the Init method then the DE will have already been loaded and your tables will be open.