> The whole problem was that I was not taking the "thisform.cFindUniqueID" and moving it to the form property that controls my method for getting the selected information. I'm sorry for having taken up your time.

hey no problem Ed, that's what we are all here for. For me - more often than not it takes explaining the act of explaining a problem in a thread like this in order to be able to see for myself the what the problem actually is < g > such is life when life includes a framework with as much stuff in it to as this.