Thanks for answering Paladine!

Thats very helpful. (When one doesn't know whats wrong, one has a tendency to waste time with things that are really inconsequential.) The nature of this problem disturbs me because the application does not seem to be executing the conditional in the DBConnection function. If I leave one of the text boxes blank the validation works, however if I type in any user name and password, the page just seems to refresh. I should have mentioned that I have attempted to execute this code without using the codebehind method of programming. (I can never get it to work for me.)

I think that I will have to keep playing with it because I think that I have modified the example beyond the point where it can be recognizably assisted remotely. I will let you know what I come up with.