I have been trying to get this working for 3 hours...and it was that small of a change. Thanks so much. I will post back when I need more help.

P.S. thats a legit reason..

You specified using a span specifically. Why?

But I did as you said, and changed it to onclick. Still not working. Do you need to see the css file?

alright here is my new code:

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string sMySQLCon = "Server=teamserver;Database=projectsilva;Uid=**;password=**";
            MySqlConnection con = new MySqlConnection(sMySQLCon);
            try
            {
                con.Open();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
            }

            MySqlCommand CMD = con.CreateCommand();
            string sChosenPerson = " ";
            MySqlDataReader reader = CMD.ExecuteReader();
            sChosenPerson = cmbFighters.SelectedItem.ToString();
            CMD.CommandText = "SELECT wins FROM fighters WHERE fighter_name = '" + sChosenPerson + "'";

            if (reader.HasRows)
            {
                while (reader.Read())
                {
                    label1.Text = reader["fighter_name"].ToString();
                    label2.Text = reader["wins"].ToString();
                    label3.Text = reader["loses"].ToString();
                    label4.Text = reader["ties"].ToString();
                }
            }
        }

its giving me an error saying it not properly initialized.

Forgot all about where's. lol. Alright thanks, ill post back tomorrow and let you know how it works.

Much appreciated!

Well it works like a charm. Now I would like to put some extra stuff in it.

Here is a line for example from the cfg file:

pb_sv_protecttag 1 -{IC}- ;Expires 2011-05-30

Where is a good reference to figureing out how to get the expired date from that line?