I know I posted 2 questions in one in this thread.... my primary concern is why the errors are appearing in the output window of VWD. my second question was related to the first, and I'm speculating its because in doing Server.Transfer() to reload the page with the new data. This is something I'm trying to avoid by possibly using another techique. Is is a best practice to do a SaveData() from a Page_Init() ? That way I no longer have to call the Server.Transfer() at the end of my SaveData() and I can potentially get rid of all those warning/error msgs that are showing up in the VWD output window? thanks, andy p.