Tony,

>Do I need to use the MM Date picker in my MM form, or can I just use the standard control?

We overrode the Value property in the Date Picker control (so it didn't blow up when you tried to store an invalid type to the Value property), to do this we redefined the Value property as type Object rather than DateTime. All you have to do is convert the Value property to DateTime. For example:

Dim DTime As DateTime = CType(Me.mmDateTimePicker1.Value, System.DateTime)
DTime.ToString("d")

Regards,