Thank you CJ, now my next question is:

I am going to have to have a VERY large number of roles > 1000. Obviously I dont want to have to create each one individually, is their a way to dynamically check if the role exists and create it if not?

Hmmm.. I haven't tried this, but you might be able to use:  DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleController.GetPortalRoles()

That should return an arraylist of (I assume to be) all of the Roles within the portal.  You could compare the current role to the list of PortalRoles and if it's not on the list, you can create it:  DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleController.AddRole()

Have a look at the DNN Source Package, then go to the following:

\Library\Components\Security\Roles

There are serveral .vb files in there that actually give descriptions of what the DNN objects (related to roles) do.

CJ

CJ, thank you very much for all of your help. I determined the reason why the page was only refreshing. Im sad to say is was a very stupid mistake on my part. When I changed my buttons to ImageButtons, I never removed the "Text="    "" aparently this is enough to kill the whole thing.

As for the role question, I have not had the tie to play with that more, but I will let you know what I figure out.

Thanks again