Alright, I found my mistake in that whole mess. Turns out I was accessing the ADO stuff correctly, I just wasn't familiar enough with VB to know that I had to ReDim the array that I was loading with the information. Whoops!

Sorry that it took me so long to get back to you. I ended up with a serious case of pneumonia that put me down for 4 weeks and I'm just now getting back to working on this project. Here is the whole code excerpt you requested, including the SQL. Please let me know if you need anything more, and thanks for your time taking a peek at this.

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After much convincing by other people, I have finally started trying to use ADO.NET instead of ADODB. Unfortunately, my lack of knowledge regarding these objects has left me broken in one area. I tried converting the area where I am checking for duplicate records to use ADO.NET by checking if a student filling out a form enters the same first name, last name, and program or major as another record in the database as per my instructions. Unfortunately,...