Hello SPE,
This forum is for helping customers interoperate with Microsoft Products via our Open Protocol Documentation. Information on this program can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/protocols/default.mspx and the documentation itself can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc203350.aspx. Your issue does not appear to be related to our protocol documentation. However, there is a forum for development against a SharePoint installation which can be found here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/threads/. I hope that this information is helpful for answering your post.
Thanks
John Dunning
Senior Escalation Engineer Microsoft Corporation
US-CSS DSC PROTOCOL TEAM