>>>>>I have evaled R&R, and Crystal, and am going round and
>>>>>round with tech support at MicroMega Systems (FoxFire!)
>>>>>without much success, so I think I'm gonna end up writing
>>>>>the code by hand (gack).
>>>>>

I'd be curious as to why Crystal Reports (Version 5 or 6) wouldnt
work for you?? Visual Foxpro comes with an ActiveX control that
allows us to launch a simple Crystal Reports EXE from our
apps and we access the Data Via ODBC... Works very well...

I hope you didnt judge Crystal based on the Version 4.56.8.3b That
comes with the Visual Studio...???