I considered that, but I didn't need that info displayed on the cart display, so I worked out a new solution today.
What I ended up doing was since I'm not using the thumbnail and weight objects in the eCart display, I put my date/time post info into one variable and my text box post in another variable and 'hijacked' the thumbnail and weight objects to move them thru the scripts and then was able to capture the data for the orderdetails table.
Thanks for your input, talk to you in a bit.
-Frank