>One of the things that concerns me with MSDE was that MSDE doesn't have the nifty database management
>interface tools like SQL Server enterprise manager to create and easily work with the database at a
>site that doesn't have SQL server installed. For development, I have SQL server and use enterprise
>manager when developing and testing.

You could write your own Fox app using SQL-DMO to manage the MSDE installation. Wouldn't be able full-featured as the EM, but it would give you easy access to the obvious things. You could probably even write a sort of command window using EXECSCRIPT() to handle the things that you don't manually code...