Hi Kevin,

I was copying code from some other source (I've been doing that alot since I don't know what the heck I'm doing in .net yet) :-)

Anyway, that was it..I removed the static reference and it no longer does that behvior.

I was stealing code from a c# windows form and putting into a c# web service. I wonder why they have so much stuff decleared as static(functions and variables)? I would think in a webservice I may not want anything to be static...would that make sense?

Thanks for you help,
Paul

>I believe the reason is because you're declaring the variable as static. Unless there's a specific reason it needs to be static, remove that and give it a try.
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>Let me know if that works...
>Kevin