Ben thank you an excellent nugget of which I am still trying to digest all of it, but I think the concept will actually help me in some other apps as well
Ton, Thanks, I will try that, although this solution was an attempt to get of af a worse memory leak from our first attempt at keeping the connection alive. Unfortunatly i do need to keep the global as it is being populated in order for a multitude of other VI's in the portal system to use. the get connection that continues on is being used internally in the vi as well.
thanks again, I will let you know how it goes when I get all of the proposals tested....
Chris