Alright in playing around with my settings...Ive been soft linking my fields.ini files to a central one located at the base dir of my app. I moved my tables/ dir to make sure certain settings were not used..and I noticed my ID fields werent being displayed. So I moved my app/fields.ini to fields.ini.onhold...and lo and behold...my id field showed up.....so then I moved around in the fields.ini after a rename back to its proper self..sure enough its global now....
MANY thanks Mr. Steve.
As usual I cannot say enough about this program. This will save me lots and lots of time.