I've looked at the white papers and read the resolutions to what looked like legitimate circular references.  My problem happens only when Publishing my Web project and it's only on user controls that reference the MasterPage.

So, if my user control contains:
<%@ Reference VirtualPath="~/MasterPage.master"%>

I will receive a circular reference error when I Publish...I've tried batch=false in my Web.config but that does not help.  Also, the user controls are not in the same path as the MasterPage.master file.

ANY help would be great!!