>Thanks, Bonnie - I figured that would be the case but I thought I'd throw it out there in case someone had found a nifty way of doing this other than Typed Datasets.
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>I appreciate the help...

None that I know of ... maybe someone else can tell you differently, but I think you might be stuck using Typed DataSets. Not that that's a bad thing. <g> (I like them, as you may or may not already know).

~~Bonnie