>I haven't actually played with that. Is there any way to set this up without running the Wizards?

A typed dataset is just a subclass of the regular dataset where the properties of the subclass have been mapped to fields using the XSD schema.

The xsd.exe command line utility can generate the class for you from the xsd.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cptools/html/cpconxmlschemadefinitiontoolxsdexe.asp