Scott,i've not used the xmlmerge capabilities yet so I can't see whats wrong with your fragment, it looks fine to me. As for running it via Sergey's code, you can use the IUpgradeable interface (http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/111/threadid/52093/scope/posts/Default.aspx) to run it on first install.

Cathal

That is good to know.  Thanks for telling me because I was still trying to figure that out.  I guess I will have to try using the IUpgradeable interface to get it done.  My only remaining question then would be where do I implement that interface?  Do I have one of my ascx files implement it, do I create a separate class that implements it or does it go somewhere else?  I guess I'm just confused on what objects DNN will try to call methods against IUpgradeable.  Thanks again for the heads up!

Scott