>Can anyone recommend a good calendar control or technique. I want to give the user the ability enter dates by selecting from pop up calendar.

Nick,

One of the UT posters here, Paul Mrozowski, has a free form-based calendar control (non-ActiveX) that may be of interest to you. Here's the website:

http://www.kirtlandsys.com/Tools%20Page.htm

Laterness,
Jon

P.S. I'm sure you get this a lot but.. you haven't by any chance been drumming for a number of years, have you? ;)