I also ran into a problem with SmartNavigation, unrelated to the problem you are having. I came across some posts (can't remember from where) that said setting SmartNavigation = true caused a variety of problems. I've stayed away from it since then.

>No this is not the problem.
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>I fixed it but still don't understand why it works now. I turned off SmartNavigation on the page and now everything is fine.
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>Response.Redirect works in other parts of the application, just not on this one page (unitl I turned off SmartNavigation). It doesn't matter where I try to redirect; a local aspx page or any valid URL (www.msn.com for example).
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>>You're probably using Form Authentication that redirects you to your default page if access to that page is denied. If this is not the case, try server.execute("file.aspx").