How to work with TVirtualStringTree

Oh, blast... it's been YEARS since I've had to automate around the TVirtualStringTree component in Delphi.  I THINK we ended up having to create a wrapper class around it in our debug build of our application.  I'm not sure if anyone else has any thoughts on this but I'd have to dig up some old contacts at my old job and see if they can share their resource on that because it really was a bear to get around it at the time.