Thanks,
Bill

The sp's in my code were placed in there for initial testing and I never removed them.  My goal was to replace them with calls to the corresponding business objects (which were not created at the time--they exist now). 

I am following you.  Really.  The thing that I am tripping up on is that once I give the DB the job of creating my custom properties (which are not custom properties to the business object anymore...they are actually columns in the remote data table) there remains little benefit to be derived from a custom property in the business object itself.

Well, getting late.  Time to go home.  Got an early and long day tomorrow.

Take care,
Bill