Thanks Scott, this solution worked fine, however I'm concerned if this is a work around or standard practice when implementing transactions.  Based on the information Ben supplied with respect to isolation levels, the ReadUncommitted should have worked...Actually I tried them all and none of them worked for repeated reads.

Right now I have a FillByItemNumber method in my InventoryBO. I use this anytime I want to retrieve an inventory record.  Does this mean I need to create another method FillByItemNumberNoLock and use this anytime I want to update the item muliple time within a transaction? 

That is exactly what happened to me.  The only way I could get my import routine to work was with the NOLOCK.  I don't know if this is the best way to do it but I couldn't find any other way to get it to work.  If you come up with some thing please let me know,  I will do the same.

Scott