>Actually, you can get only the message quite easily by turning
> off the ASP.Net error information. You're getting the stack
> walk information, but that's only returned to you if you
> RemoteErrors turned on in web.config and you're running
> locally. Turn the customErrors on and SoapException will
> return only the error message properly.

I am soooo glad you clarified this for me. A few days ago one of my co-workers noticed that exception messages were coming just fine on his environment, even though I could swear that they weren't for me a few months ago. I never followed up, but now I know what was going on!