I actually hated the new syntax at first, too. However, I have grown to realize that it is MUCH cleaner and in a lot of ways, easier. It is still kind of new to me, though. This is one other reason it takes me a week or two to do what took me a day or two to do with VB 6.0.I never really got into VB.net (I guess that is VB 7.0) because I didn't like the way Microsoft changed the Syntax structure of VB. Not sure if VB 9.0 (they are up to that number now?) has similar Syntax as VB 6.0 so I don't know if I would be of much use to continue your project.
JD