Ah...gotcha. Thanks!

No, it is a reflection thing.  If you do not make the private shared, then each time that that object gets evaluated through Sharp-Shooter / Report Generation, a new instance will be created several times.  Each time that instance gets created, then the source goes away.

This ties more specifically to the BBS and how each row is exposed as a unique BO.

I was going over the ReportSharpShooter sample provided by Trent and noticed that the field supporting the CustomerNotes property (_CustomerNotes) was shared (static). The report doesn't work unless it is shared. Why? Is this a sharp shooter thing?