disclaimer: it's been years since I've messed with vb, but I thought all you had to do was create a textbox, with a name of say, txtStupid. then, create another one called txtStupid. then it would ...

Whenever VB starts being dumb like this, I just use pointers. Google for "Pointers Visual Basic" and you should get lots of resources. It's much easier to pass a pointer to the array as a Long ...