IR, i like the substring idea. I'll put that in. The 3 letter connotations apprear the same in all the names so it should work quite well. As for visibility, wer are doing this to cut down on technician time out in the area. The users are out in the area are used to doing MFG type line work, so they hardly know anything about computers, let alone what a start menue is. That's fine as long as they do the line work perfect most the time.
I am going to stack the buttons i have so it only appears as if there is one to any one user. Then i am going to control the visibility so that only the button they need for that area appears. Otherwise, they will either get confused or play around to much and muck up the configs for that area.
Once I am done I'll post up pic's of the final form so it will make more sense. Right now I have alot of unneeded output feilds on the form to verify all the gears are turning in the direction.
This is turning out to be alot of fun for me. Thank you again.