>>If we both agree at this point, is this a PB issue or my 3rd party issue?,
>>'cause I can't see anything wrong on that XML
With that particular one, no. But you've send a couple of trace files in the past that show "Unable to translate bytes [F3] at index 0 from specified code page to Unicode." as being returned from the service.
That's why I wanted a reproducible sample, so I could see exactly what is happening. The sample I have not doesn' t throw that particular error.