>>have spent much of the last 2 years developing a pretty rich set of reusable UI, database, reporting, and connectivity components in .NET

I haven't developed a UI or normal report for over 5 years.

This is why we *need* to be able to hold conversations without saboteurs bursting in. One reason why autospanning datasets is "obvious" to me is because I need it all the time. Whereas all the cool work you do with components and UIs is as nothing to me. Perhaps the converse applies as well. But we'll never know, because every time we try to discuss it "somebody" bursts in calling people paranoid, uneducated, and all the rest of it.