Thanks bearpawz,

It's been a steep learning curve for me... The forum has proved to be an invaluable resource. Just last night I managed to finally get my data to store and retrieve nicely from an external eeprom by reading the many eeprom problem threads on here. Turned out my whole issue was I had the control declared as a word, not a byte.

What you say about commenting the code is a very good point. I will endeavor to do that more.