>Thanks Bonnie,

You're welcome, Paul ... but it looks like I didn't do anything, you figured it out yourself. <g>

~~Bonnie



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>I figured out #1 it was because I "forgot" that I was not populating the child nodes until the OnBeforeExpand event rather than having to recurse through the entire file system. So that was easy enough to fix once I stepped back for a minute.
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>As for # 2 that is what I ended up doing.