Edit Default Values unavailable for non-optional, non-repeating sections

[Daniel Pratt]

This is the first time I've used InfoPath, but I do know something about
xml, schemas, act. I am encountering a couple frustrations that are putting
a damper on all this InfoPath goodness.

My first pass at the schema for my template looked like this (simplified):

specification
...
forms
form (repeating)
sections
section (repeating)
(choice)
sectionA
sectionB
sectionC

I wanted each "form" section to contain both a "sectionA" and "sectionB" by
default. I found that I could set this up at the "form" level using "Edit
Default Values...". Great! Then the decision was made that each form should
be in it's own document, a la:

form
sections
section (repeating)
choice
sectionA
sectionB
sectionC

Now that "form" is a single, required element, "Edit Default Values..." is
unavailable! As such, I haven't found a way to choose which sub-sections are
included by default. :-(

Also, I expected that I could cut and paste the carefully formatted and
arraigned controls for the "form" element from the old template to the new.
It seems, however, that table sections cannot be re-bound without losing the
original columns. :-(

Any help with either of these issues would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

Regards,
Daniel