Hi John,

>>>>How about parameterised views and a requery of each view as the customer changes.

I would use the method Caroline describes. It's very reliable--we've had no issues with the DBC. We use free tables as well. We open the tables through code, so the DBC knows nothing of paths, only the alias.
I think the updating of tables is more robust because the cursors are disconnected, and updated through USE AGAIN type access.