As it turns out the developer is using a timer but found it was another issue related to AJAX tryng to load a control in the wrong spot in a table which resulted in throwing an error. The exact "cause" is still not entirely known but a workaround was formulated for this instance.

Bill

>>We are having a problem with timeouts firing for the MS AJAX Update Panel. The timeouts seem to be AJAX related and not related to the Session timeout setting.
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>>Is there some way to configure this as a setting or to work arounf it to keep the AJAX timeout from firing?
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>>Thanks,
>>Bill
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>Are you using AJAX timer? I don't remember any timeouts with just UpdatePanel.