Why not just use AVG 8 Free Edition. People it's free and gets updated as well. I mean on there site they talk about millions of users use their Anti virus. Plus having a anti virus is just a precaution, it's like having to check your oil of your car every month, though usually you don't need to but it better safe than sorry. :-D

Well the problem with merging is that due to the fact that the cells has nothing in it the table just ignores it, therefore best way to prevent that is putting something in it like a label, textbox, etc. But if you would like to leave it blank then best option is insert a new line statement "
".

Then you could try to do it in the code-behind with the feature of Response.Write("...html coding...."), i tried it with a picture e.g. This is adding a picture with a string from the database to a checkListBox collection cblNames.Items.Add((string)readerSet["Nam"] + "

"); Any other questions be free to ask, i'll try my best...