>We have tables with a large number of fields. Most of the time, most of these fields have little meaning when viewing the data. We keep the most "relevant" fields grouped together at the beginning of the table so that it's easier to browse the relevant data (without having to go back and forth).

Browse supports a 'fields' clause. Also there is 'set fields', select etc.
Even you could treat a browse window as a grid and and change columnorder, columncount etc. programmatically
Cetin