>Is there a chance that Visual Foxpro report 'objects' will be objects?

Very unlikely.

> Like you can really manipulate them programmatically?

Yes you can manipulate them ptogrammatically but not the way you think. You can see it for yourself by downloading VFP9 public beta from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=23fbc57b-93b0-4cb7-b376-53ca04fca159&displaylang=en. In addition, don't forget to download Visual FoxPro 9.0 Beta Component Refresh http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=19329f2e-d806-4c4f-ac41-9b58be3c8f4c&displaylang=en