>Good for you ...they actually listened to your suggestion and changed their WebService to return DataSet.WriteXML() instead of the DataSet?!? See, it pays to gripe about things sometimes, doesn't it? <g>

Well, I think they added a new method. IAC, it now works for me. But, I explained them that doing it like they used to, assuming they kept the old method, makes it less usable for non .Net environments. Passing a DataSet goes against the standard of receiving a proper XML. Maybe they didn't know about that when they first built it and it remained like that.