Well, since the Crystal Reports requirement was not made by me (Client requested) I have little or no choice to alter the development tool at this time. However the meeting went well with the client I created about 4 screens (reports) and just saved them and showed the access points and functionality as requested. However I utilized a direct DB conection... Created a few Proc's and got great performance considering the hardware limits (Laptop). Thanks for all the great input from everyone... Normally I post to people that need help..nice to get the responses on the "other end"

Thanks much all!