???Well I thought I had this all figured out.  If we have a part, F,A, or N and do not have a standard routing, but build a routing at the work order level, we get no estimated costs for the work order.  Shouldn';t we be able to add sequences to a work order and have DBA use what's in the WO to calculate estimated costs without the sequence having to be in the standard routing?

That should work - I have on my ever growing list adding the ability for WO-K-A and WO-K-B to recalculate the estimated cost when the BOM or Routing of a WO is changed so you don't have to go into WO-A to do it.

I have this problem every time I recalculate the estimated cost.  Every time I recalculate the esimated cost I lose the estimated labor.  This happens when I change the qty of a work order or copy a work order too.