Disable options in Discoverer Viewer

Hi,
I have the following questions in Discoverer Viewer.
1.Save As function should default to user’s “C” drive, not XSR server.
2. What about after an end user is finished manipulating the report and exits / goes to a different worksheet – a dialogue page is displayed regarding saving the changes. This needs to be disabled unless you can default the save as to the end users’ pc
3.Printable page set up needs to be addressed, pages are not formatted to fit reports logically, does not give page numbering/header footer
4. We need a system-wide change from the standard default settings to some setting that makes sense for our reports – example: landscape vs. portrait; smaller margins, etc.
5.Export function must bring the following information with the data: report title information, Created on date/time stamp and the Xerox Internal Use Only—Protect until XXXX”. Only brought over the page items titles
Can some one help in making this happen please...
Thanks, Prasad

Try checking out this document
http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/A95458_02/customiz.htm
specifically the Section 10.11, "How to remove Discoverer Viewer user interface options"
Hope this helps
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