I would hire you, but i'm just a "lowly" programmer. :-/ i do really appreciate your help on this, though!

and i think you conjured up some "magic" on the last file...

in the original file that was sent to me, on the "complete" task, i take a look at the data mapper and i see 5 items listed on the left and one item listed on the right:

DATA MAPPER (on "complete" task):

LEFT SIDE:
$testConfrForm1CreateTaskRequestMsg.root
$testConfrForm1CreateTaskResponseMsg.root
$xformInitProcessResponseMsg.root
$xformInitProcessRequestMsg.root
$testCompleteFormNotifyRequestMsg.root


RIGHT SIDE:
$testConfForm1NotifyTaskCompletionResponseMsg.root


in the file that you last posted, on your "complete" task, instead of having 5 items in the data mapper on the left side and one on the right, you now have 6 items on the left and 2 on the right. How did you get those extra items??? And these missing items are, of course, what is missing so that I can connect the CONFIRM information from the 2nd form to the final notification form. The missing items are as follows:

LEFT SIDE:
$testConfForm1NotifyTaskCompletionRequestMsg.root

RIGHT SIDE:
$testCompleteFormNotifyRequestMsg.root


I'm just perplexed...