Thanks for the help, Sue. I think I've made it over most of the hurdles now.

All the fields that weren't keeping their data were bound to User-Defined
fields of type Text, but I'd given some of them the property of WordWrap
instead of leaving it at Text. Changing it back seems to have solved the
problem. Is there a list of the descriptions of the various properties
available so that one can determine when to use which one?

Btw, the graphic at http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?ID=38 highlights
the Choose Field item, but talks about Property to use. I know you can't set
the property without choosing a field, but it still took a while for it to
sink in what you were talking about when you said "bind to an Outlook
property". For those of us that are novices, it might be helful for you to
add an arrow or something pointing to the separate item that needs to be set.

Now that I know how to get the data to save with my fields, I can fix most
of my other issues by creating additional user-defined fields. As long as the
"Include this field for Printing and Save As" field is selected on the
Validation tab, they should print out when I print the item, right?
Formatting is not an issue as long as the field labels are the ones I created.

Years ago I know Microsoft had a WishList where one could submit wishes. If
it still exists, I'd like to add that reminders be available to be set from
custom forms, too.

Thanks again!