Changing DesignerControl Object Attributes Using VS.NET

I'm getting were I really hate Visual Studio .NET. I only switched recently from Visual Studio because I need it for SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services.

We have an ASP only site ... no .NET ... just ASP pages. I inherited it frmo another developer and am struggling through figuring out how and why he did stuff the way he did.

I now need to change the captions in a couple DesignControl buttons. I'm used to just doing things by hand and not using all these "helpful" controls. When I open the page from my server I get stuff that looks like this

      <!--METADATA TYPE="DesignerControl" startspan
<OBJECT id=btnDetails style="LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 65px; TOP: 0px; HEIGHT: 27px" classid="clsid:B6FC3A14-F837-11D0-9CC8-006008058731"
      width=65 height=27>
      <PARAM NAME="_ExtentX" VALUE="1720">
      <PARAM NAME="_ExtentY" VALUE="714">
      <PARAM NAME="id" VALUE="btnDetails">
      <PARAM NAME="Caption" VALUE="Details">
      <PARAM NAME="Image" VALUE="">
      <PARAM NAME="AltText" VALUE="">
      <PARAM NAME="Visible" VALUE="-1">
      <PARAM NAME="Platform" VALUE="256">
      <PARAM NAME="LocalPath" VALUE="../">
</OBJECT>
-->
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript RUNAT=Server>
function _initbtnDetails()
{
      btnDetails.value = 'Details';
      btnDetails.setStyle(0);
}
function _btnDetails_ctor()
{
      CreateButton('btnDetails', _initbtnDetails, null);
}
</script>
<% btnDetails.display %>

<!--METADATA TYPE="DesignerControl" endspan-->  


I need to change the caption for the button but when I do that, the change never shows up on the page on the server. If I colse and reopen the page from the server, I see my changes but the button text is not shown.

What am I missing? Is it a problem with the way I have the project or solution set up?

Thanks

David