Thank you very much rajhansh...

I'll be playing around with this code to see if I can make heads or tales of it... I have a feeling that I'm in over my head with this one, but you know, this is a place that I kind of like to be...

and by the way, the clean up portion of your code seems like it would be common sense... but it's the first time that I've seen it, is this something that people just take for granted or something that people just don't do anymore?

anyways thanks a million for the assist... I'll post here again if I run into any major issues.