When I start a completely new ASP.net project, it works fine.  In this
existing project, I noticed that the first page (default.aspx), which is
currently empty (except for the default framework), has the auto event wireup
option enabled and the page directive looks like it normally does:

<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb"
Inherits="_Default" %>

Every other page in this project is under different subdirectories and not a
single one of them has the auto event wireup option, in fact their page
directives are stripped to the very basic:

<%@ Page Language="VB" %>

Since I read your reply, I have created new pages both in the root of the
website (default2.aspx) and in the existing subdirectories and neither one
had the correct page directive at the top, only the stripped down version.  I
turned on the code-behind option when I created a new page and it puts the
full page directive in, but the auto event wireup is disabled.  I tried
changing it to 'true', saving the page, the creating another new page, it has
the full directive, but the autoeventwireup is still 'false'.  How can I turn
that back on, so that every new page in this existing project has the
autoeventwireup="true"

Thanks so much for your help.