Victor,

>>I appreciate the feedback - this is unfortunate since i have no control as to whether or not I can guarantee that the stored proc will ever change.

That's unfortunate, but there *is* a way around that problem. After you .Fill() your DataSet, you can test for a specific column name in your tables that are unique to each table, thereby determining if they are being retrieved in the correct order and swap their names if they are not. So, something like this:

for (int i=0; i < ds.Tables.Count; i++)
{
    if (ds.Tables[i].Columns.Contains("CustomerName"))
        ds.Tables[i].TableName = "Customers";
    else if (ds.Tables[i].Columns.Contains("OrderNumber"))
        ds.Tables[i].TableName = "Orders";
}

~~Bonnie