BUT, the BIG problem I'm having is still with the external method in courseList.py.

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Any ideas? Now, it could just be my programming. With the new 2.2 version I may need to add security information to each object (which I don't know how to do). Right now I'm just starting with a blank class and adding a few properties to it. Zope may be looking at it and thinking, "What the heck is this thing?" The idea was to trick Zope into thinking it was a Z SQL query; perhaps 2.2 isn't so easily fooled...?

I think that you have hit it on the head - we're trying *hard* to make Zope harder to fool :^) Try adding the following to your class statement, for example: class MyClass: __allow_access_to_unprotected_subobjects__=1 def __init(self, foo): ... ...You'll need to restart Zope for this to take effect. Hope this helps! Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com