Just a word of caution with session variables - they require that the browser have cookies turned on. i haven't had any problems with this, but apparently some people have, since there are quite a few articles about how to get around this. the server stores the user's SessionID in a cookie, so if the user isn't using cookies, the Session_OnStart event is fired every time they hit the page since the server can't read the sessionid from the cookie it tried to write.

just a FYI.

John

John Pirkey
MCSD
www.ShallowWaterSystems.com