Well a co-worker helped me out. Pretty simple in retrospect. I would post the code but everyone else must know how to do it or have no need for the implementation. If you do need to see the code, let me know.

Mike

Windows XP Pro
VS 2005 & C# (I'm fairly new to C# but have doing VB.Net going on 2yrs and VB6 for 5yrs.)

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