>New projects will get version 8.5, at which point I'll look at other methods of using Crystal Reports. VFP's major weakness is still going to be passing data structures and VB data types around, though.

David,

When you make use the of the RDC object model, you aren't making function calls through Crystal's print engine API anymore. Subsequently, the data type issue (i.e. structures, etc) isn't an issue anymore since you're just setting properties and calling methods.

Laterness,
Jon