>I just can't get that thing to work with my forms nicely. It affects behavior outside of itself with no way that I can see to control it. Too bad, because it is nice looking.
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>Anyone know of a good visual calendar control? Preferrably free. Just looking for a date picker, but with a time picker would be ok too.

Try the Calendar control here..

http://www.rcs-solutions.com/downloads.aspx

I use it and it works very nicely.