For some reason any time I insert a new news item its inserting -1 into the userID field. I've placed a temp label on the front page of news.aspx and set its text property to the (PhileIdentity)Context.User.Identity and its displaying the correct UserID in the label but Im getting that same -1 in the UserID field of the News_News table any ideas?

Put a breakpoint in the Submit_Click handler in SumitNews.aspx.cs (assuming C# version) and then step through the code to see what happens.

Eric