(I should mention that it turns out they didn't have much in the ponzi scheme, much to their relief)
Ha, it wasn't a dig at all, more an observation that most of my .NET questions seem to be resolved by either yourself or Rendle. So, a complement if anything. Thanks!
I'm not really up on ASP.NET and stuff like view state. Although I did get databinding working in Javascript, with a view to using JSON serialization for passing stuff backwards and forwards.