>All my problems are not solved, but I'm making progress ;)
>
>Here's basically what I had in my code:
>

><!--
><mm:mmDropDownList ID="cboContactType" runat="server" AccessLevel="Full" AppendDataBoundItems="True"
>                BindingSource="dsContactTypes" BindingSourceDisplayMember="txtContactType" BindingSourceValueMember="txtContactType"
>                BindingValueSource="MemInd" BindingValueSourceMember="txtType" ControlID="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
>                IsPostBack="False" SecuritySetup="True" Width='150px' DataSourceID="dsContactTypes"
>                DataTextField="txtContactType" DataValueField="txtContactType" Visible="false">
>                <asp:ListItem Value='0' Text=""></asp:ListItem>
>            </mm:mmDropDownList>
>-->
>

>
>Even though it looks to me like it's commented out (and wasn't on the screen due to it's 'visible' attribute set to false, when I traced through the code I could see during the BindBack() method (not sure of the actual name) it was still binding the value of this control back to the element.
>
>It's kind of a gotcha.
>
>Eric
>
Did you try to comment in ASP style commenting? E.g. highlight this block and press Ctrl+K/Ctrl+C ?