That worked perfectly thank you.

 

Now onto the other issue of the embedmessenger.ascx loaded on every page of the website.

First I have no need for the GUI of the embedmessenger.ascx I want it to be invisible to my users. 

I was able to get this working by making it a 1px by 1px so it can not be seen.  Works like a charm.

 

But the problem with this approach is it takes the page twice as long to load and it seems like a lot of overhead to include this in my master page so it is loaded throughout the website.

 

Is there a better way or is this the only way to do it?

 

How about a trimmed down version embedmessener.ascx control that just puts the user online and pops open a new window when an IM is recieved? No need for the extra overhead of the GUI.

 

 

Is it possible to speak to someone on the phone? Trying to explain this way will take me forever!