I guess next on my suggestion list would be to hack the frx (or a copy would also work), add the DE data record(s) for the table(s) you want (this will require a little poking around, using an FRX with a DE for example), then let user do their thing with the builder. Then either delete copy of frx, or records containing the DE info.
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>Depending on how you're doing things (whether including frx in EXE, for example), I think this idea would work with either the original frx or a copy, though have never tried it myself. However, if you look at an FRX DE table info, there's not much there, so my guess it should be fairly easy.

That's what I started looking into doing. I was just hoping there was a better way to get it acting like it did before the data environment