The site I found was using a GA (which is Genetic Algorithm) to train the ANN. I think the design was something along the lines of setting up the ANN and using the GA to evolve for a set of weights such that the ANN produced the correct results. In that case, the genes in the GA would be the weights in whichever sequence you wanted to try them in. This is a pretty clean design for a GA, and the one I posted in the CodeBank, with the caveats I noted about GA design, could be applied to the problem with relatively minor modification.

The link to that would be here, in case you want to see it.

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=553187