>yea, thats the weird part about it, when i add the control during design time, i can call the MyFunction()...
>
>but when i remove the control from the project components
>and try to dynamically create it during runtime,
>i get the error 'object does not support this property or method'

Read this: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q190/6/70.ASP