>>BTW, see answers on your formatting question here
>>
>>http://forum.lessthandot.com/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=7043
>>
>>myvalues.ToString("$#0.00")
>
>This doesn't work

>RetVal += "<td>" + oReader("thisyear").ToString("{0:C}") + "</td>"

>and neither does this

>RetVal += "<td>" + oReader("thisyear").ToString("$#0.00") + "</td>"
>

I'd be happy with just commas.

Try casting this field to Currency before returning it back - may be it would help. That's the thing I can think of - I'm working on something, can not test right away.