Hmm, walked through that and I guess it's ok if you want to spend the time to
hassle through it.  Also, I'm not going to define ASP.Net Roles.  This is an
intranet application and we're using security groups to control access.

To verify authorization we use User.IsInRole("Domain\username");

I stilled try following the direction in the link you sent but with
roles="*" on the urls, adding the settings to the web.config blocks the
entire menu.  So I assume you have to enable roles which I'm not interested
in doing at this point to try and do something this simple.

So isn't there a simple way to find the menuitem or node in the datasource
and disable just disable it when the page loads?

thanks.

P.S.  To enable roles in ASP.Net 2.0, don't you need to have sqlexpress
installed on the server?  I'm not sure if the .Net 2.0 framework installs sql
express by default but sqlexpress will not be running on this server.

Again, haven't spent that much time with roles and don't really care to in
this project.

So that puts me back to the original question and is there a way to disable
a menu item or hide it programmatically when it's populated from a
web.sitemap file?

Thanks.