how to handle the menu control, gridview, and postback...this is driving me nuts!

If anyone can help, I would very muchly appreciate it.

I have a main page that uses the .net 2.0 menu control with the multiview
controls as the menu choices. This works fine. One of the menu choices
dynamically loads a user control with a gridview (datagrid) control on it.
That works fine. The problem arises when the user clicks on a different
page of the gridview control---this is a paged gridview. When that happens,
the gridview goes away. I'm assuming this is happening because the
"OnPageIndexChanging" event is causing a postback and the user control
doesn't feel like loading after that. I have tried all kinds of things to
make this work.....loading the control at various stages (pageload,
pagerender, etc)....to no avail. It just won't work for me.

I would appreciate any help in solving this. I am beyond giving up on it as
well. Relevant code is below:

masterpage.aspx
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<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="rgp" TagName="showTickets" Src="showTickets.ascx" %>

string strDBView;

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string strMenuLabel;

if (!IsPostBack)
{
for (int index = 0; index < mvTicketMan.Views.Count; index++)
{
strMenuLabel =
mvTicketMan.Views[index].ID.ToString().Replace("vw", "").Replace("_", " ");
mnuTicketMan.Items.Add(new MenuItem(strMenuLabel,
index.ToString()));
}
mnuTicketMan.Items[0].Selected = true;
}
}

protected void mnuTicketMan_MenuItemClick(object sender, MenuEventArgs
e)
{
Control ctrlShowTickets;

mvTicketMan.ActiveViewIndex = Int32.Parse(e.Item.Value);
strDBView =
mvTicketMan.Views[Int32.Parse(e.Item.Value)].ID.ToString().Replace("vw",
"").Replace("_", " ");

if (strDBView == "My Tickets")
{
ctrlShowTickets = LoadControl("showTickets.ascx");
plhShowTickets.Controls.Add(ctrlShowTickets);
//((showTickets)ctrlShowTickets).DBView = strDBView;
//((showTickets)ctrlShowTickets).BindDataGrid("Ticke t_Number");
}
}

<asp:Menu ID="mnuTicketMan" Width="100%" runat="server"
Orientation="Horizontal"
StaticEnableDefaultPopOutImage="False"
OnMenuItemClick="mnuTicketMan_MenuItemClick">

<StaticMenuItemStyle CssClass=MenuCell ItemSpacing=0px />
<StaticHoverStyle CssClass=MenuCellHover />
<StaticSelectedStyle CssClass=MenuCellSelected ItemSpacing=0px />
</asp:Menu>

<asp:MultiView ID="mvTicketMan" runat="server" ActiveViewIndex="0">

<%--New Ticket--%>
<asp:View ID="vwCreate_Ticket" runat="server">
<table width="100%" height="100%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr>
<td class="Canvas">
<rgp:createTicket ID="rgpCreateTicket" runat="server" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</asp:View>
<%--End New Ticket--%>

<%--My Tickets--%>
<asp:View ID="vwMy_Tickets" runat="server" >
<table width="100%" height="100%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr>
<td class="Canvas">
<asplaceHolder ID="plhShowTickets" runat="server" />
<%-- <rgp:showTickets ID="rgpShowTickets" runat="server"
/> --%>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</asp:View>
<%--End My Tickets--%>
</asp:MultiView>
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usercontrol
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<%@ Control Language="C#" ClassName="showTickets" Debug="true" %>
<%@ import Namespace="System.Data" %>
<%@ import Namespace="MySql.Data.MySqlClient" %>

<script runat="server">


MySqlConnection conMain; // main db connector
string strSortDirection; // toggles the sort direction

// functions
protected void Page_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}

public void Page_Load(Object source, EventArgs e)
{
conMain = new MySqlConnection("db_connection_goes_here");

if (this.IsPostBack)
{
//BindDataGrid("Ticket_Number");
}
}

public void BindDataGrid(string strSortField)
{
strSortDirection = "DESC";

string sql = "sql stuff here";

conMain.Open();
MySqlDataAdapter ad = new MySqlDataAdapter(sql, conMain);
DataSet ds = new DataSet();

ad.Fill(ds);

grdTickets.DataSource = ds;
grdTickets.DataBind();
conMain.Close();
}

public void grdTickets_PageIndexChanged(Object source,
GridViewPageEventArgs e)
{
grdTickets.PageIndex = e.NewPageIndex;
BindDataGrid("Ticket_Number");
}

</script>

<asp:GridView ID="grdTickets" runat="server" AllowPaging="true"
OnPageIndexChanging="grdTickets_PageIndexChanged" PageSize="15" >
<AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="Silver" />
</asp:GridView>
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John Smith