trouble getting google to display proper description

My home page contains no text on the page except for things put there throught the database. Is there a way to add text into the page which gogle will recognize but not have it displayed to users who visit the page?

Think of Google as a user/visitor.  Google sees the same page that those users see.  The difference is that Google sees the words and code even if they are hidden via CSS or javascript, while a user would not.

So you could look at using CSS to hide sections of content.

However, Google is getting better about accounting for CSS code, so this is only a temporary solution.

Eventually the Google engine will act just like a person viewing the page...

You are doing a redirect from your homepage to the index.asp page - I would suggest just setting the index.asp as the page loaded for the domain and not doing it as a redirect.

Cloaking between user and spider will eventually get you into trouble. Try having a permanent page that loads for the domain will help.

You can put a footer on the pages hardcoded that your dynamic page content pushes to the bottom... use that text as the description you want.

There is a suggestion to write a 'robot.txt' file which would contain all the info you would like that a search engine would find out .. take a look at:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=768382&rl=1

bye

This is a handy help for the robots.txt file
http://www.mcanerin.com/EN/search-engine/robots-txt.asp