>>BTW, are you using VS or typing your pages manually? Why do you have code behind inside the ASPX?
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>Using VS. Following the walkthrough one of the instructions was
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>"Clear the Place code in separate file check box. "

I'll answer your other questions in a sec., but IMHO, it was a bad advice. Separating HTML from code-behind in separate files, IMHO, much better than to mix them together.