I just rewrote my entire statistics gathering process. Basically what I do in this case is I have a table of owner/tablenames that want to exclude from analyzing. I use dbms_stats.gather_database_stats(options=>'LIST STALE') to get a list of objects to analyze. I then bounce those against my table that stores the objects I want to exclude to decide if I need to analyze the table.

You can read about my basic algorithm at http://marist89.blogspot.com/2005/06...sstats_14.html.