Is it possible to initialize via Hibernate.initialize(), lazy="true" associations for criteria based queries without iterating through the entire list?

I keep getting lazyInitializationExceptions and don't know what else I can do to get around them. I got rid of them from my getters by initializing selected associations. Now I am at an impasse. Using Hibernate 3.0.3 and the session facade pattern with JBoss 4.0.2.

Many thanks in advance,
Joe