I guess maybe I was thinking along these lines:

<asp:datalist runat="server" id="lstQuestions"
    repeatcolumns="3" repeatdirection="Horizontal"
    repeatlayout="Table">
    <itemtemplate>
        <uc:MyQuestionControl runat="server" />
    </itemtemplate>
</asp:datalist>

You bind a list of questions to the datalist. You'd probably bind a question ID to the control in the template, then the question control loads the question and knows what do to display that particular question. The datalist handles the layout in the 3 column tabular format.

-Peter

I am tryin all kinds of things. This is really a headache. I think I may just use your original suggestion by using hard returns between controls. I in way over my head. Thanks for your help!!! If you come up with anything else, please let me know.

It's probably better to just start with the simple approach of just a loop thru all the questions with come logic that dumps out the formatting where you need it. It might also be more efficient in the end at this point.

-Peter

I don't know why I didn't think of it before, but I am adding the controls to a table and it seems to be working pretty well. Got the idea from another post here. DUH.. thanks for the help!