I only posted the code for the sub that was containing issues, not for SubmitRequest(). It would seem it was skipping logic only on the one machine.

I did put break points in all areas suggested from the beginning, and it was just skipping over the one IF statement....until I open and ran project on a separate machine.

The web service for which I referenced returns strings, that is why i was doing comparisons as such. I originally had all things set with the .ToLower ...but took them off as I was playing around in troubleshooting.

I am going to say this issue was resolved as far as skipping logic since it seemingly only happened on the one problematic machine. There must have been a built application in memory that was missing something... I am not sure.. but the same project goes through the code when examined on a different machine.