Thanks a lot guys for the help. I just wanted to give you an update to where I am. I did a build and an IISRESET and haven't seen the issue about extending the  System.Web.UI.UserControl  so I don't know if that fixed it. It's still not working so I'm plugging away. The error I'm getting is really confusing. I've been searching like crazy for an answer to the issue but don't see anything helpful. The build goes fine and with no errors but when I try to pull the page up I get this:               --- Has anyone ever run into this before?

Unhandled error loading module.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: External component has thrown an exception. ---> System.Web.HttpException: External component has thrown an exception. ---> System.Web.HttpCompileException: External component has thrown an exception. at System.Web.Compilation.BaseCompiler.ThrowIfCompilerErrors(CompilerResults results, CodeDomProvider codeProvider, CodeCompileUnit sourceData, String sourceFile, String sourceString) at System.Web.Compilation.BaseCompiler.GetCompiledType() at System.Web.UI.UserControlParser.CompileIntoType() at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.GetParserCacheItemThroughCompilation() --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.GetParserCacheItemInternal(Boolean fCreateIfNotFound) at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.GetParserCacheItemWithNewConfigPath() at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.GetParserCacheItem() at System.Web.UI.TemplateControlParser.CompileAndGetParserCacheItem(String virtualPath, String inputFile, HttpContext context) at System.Web.UI.TemplateControlParser.GetCompiledType(String virtualPath, String inputFile, HttpContext context) at System.Web.UI.UserControlParser.GetCompiledUserControlType(String virtualPath, String inputFile, HttpContext context) at System.Web.UI.TemplateControl.LoadControl(String virtualPath) at DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin.InjectModule(Control objPane, ModuleInfo objModule, PortalSettings PortalSettings) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---