Thanks Sergey, I suppose that worked... I don't get the error any more and the web service shows up in the Task Pane, but when I click on it, it doesn't do anything that means anything to me. So, as I feared, I have no clue what to do next. Does anyone know of any tools, books, help file, web site, person (I am willing to pay), or anything at all, that will tell me step-by-step what I need to do to create and use/(publish?) a web srevice? I am running out of time and desperate!! :)

Thank You!