Thank you very much. I'm quite sure I understand everything now.

One more question...If I inputted a date MMDDYYYY in txtStart.text, how would I store each MM, DD, and YYYY into separate integers. For example,

input: 04072009
and I want it to store:
startMonth = 04
startDay = 07
startYear = 2009

Sorry if this is so basic... I'm in an intro course. Thanks again