Thanks all for the quick and informative resposnes, Brandon you idea difinetly sounds like the way to go, was not wanting to rewrite an entire provider.

I am actually fairly new to dotnetnuke and .net itself have been intrench in my old asp ways not wanted to move on until pushed, which has happened.

Was wondering Brandon (or others) if there is any resource I could refrence in the process of creating I assume its like a wrapper class to inherit the current dnn membership provider and to then add my custom peices to it. I know this is a bit of an ask, it doesn't have to be specific to this membership provider just the process of created a extension to the current classes (I think this is what we are trying to achive) Maybe there is a good DNN book your could suggest I could sink my teeth into, I have been doing as much research as I can on the net into module development etc, just a lot to wrap my poor old ASP tech head around, but I am determind to become just as good at .net as I am at asp.

Again thanks for the quick and great response, very impressed with the support, and I will await your suggestions

Thanks Mike this was supposed to be a replie to a thread I already started, pressed the wrong button, new instead of reply, but will keep your idea inmind too.

Leith