BackgroundWorker.RunWorkerCompleted Not Firing

I am hitting an error when the 'workerGetFileList.RunWorkerAsync();' initially runs. I would expect the 'workerGetFileList_RunWorkerCompleted' to be successfully called after hitting the error (or upon any termination/completion of the DoWork) but it doesn't in the case of an error. I subsequently put a Try Catch in the 'workerGetFileList_DoWork' which seems to allow the 'workerGetFileList_DoWork' to complete successfully and then the 'workerGetFileList_RunWorkerCompleted' is called.

My understanding is that if any error occurs in the 'workerGetFileList_DoWork' then the 'workerGetFileList_RunWorkerCompleted' is called and the 'e.Error' can then be inspected and handled.

I am running VS2005 on XP.

All Relevent Code:
 
public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
 
            // I moved these from the designer to here
            // Not sure how they originally got in the designer...maybe a vs2008 feature?
            this.workerGetFileList.DoWork += new System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventHandler(this.workerGetFileList_DoWork);
            this.workerGetFileList.RunWorkerCompleted += new System.ComponentModel.RunWorkerCompletedEventHandler(this.workerGetFileList_RunWorkerCompleted);
 
            this.workerFileHash.DoWork += new System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventHandler(this.workerFileHash_DoWork);
            this.workerFileHash.RunWorkerCompleted += new System.ComponentModel.RunWorkerCompletedEventHandler(this.workerFileHash_RunWorkerCompleted);
        }
 
        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            WebService = new MTOM_Library.CoreTransferWS.MTOMWse();
 
            // get the list of files to download from the server
            workerGetFileList.RunWorkerAsync();
 
            // set the default save folder
            this.txtSaveFolder.Text = Application.StartupPath;
 
            // configure the 'TaskPanel' which is used to dynamically show a progress bar + status message for each file transfer operation
            this.taskPanel1.RemoveItemsWhenFinished = true;
            this.taskPanel1.RemoveItemsOnError = false;
            this.taskPanel1.AutoSizeForm = false;
 
            // init the ThreadPool MaxThread size to the value in the control
            this.dudMaxThreads_ValueChanged(sender, e);
        }
 
private void workerGetFileList_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
        {
            // fetch the list of filenames from the web service
            try
            {
                string[] files = WebService.GetFilesList();
                // set the result with the return value (available to workerGetFileList_RunWorkerCompleted method as e.Result)
                e.Result = files;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                if (ex.Message.Contains("Object moved to") || ex.Message.Contains("ReturnUrl=") || ex.Message.Contains("forcibly closed"))
                {
                    bAuthFailed = true;
                }
                return;
            }
        }
 
private void workerGetFileList_RunWorkerCompleted(object sender, RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.Error != null)
            {
                if (e.Error.Message.Contains("ReturnUrl=") || e.Error.Message.Contains("forcibly closed"))
                {
                    this.lblErrors.Text = "Forms Authentication Required";
                    this.chkLoginRequired.Checked = true;
                    this.txtUsername.Focus();
                    return;
                }
                else
                    this.lblErrors.Text = "Could not list files on server: " + e.Error.Message;
                return;
            }
            this.lblErrors.Text = "";
            this.lstDownloadFiles.Items.Clear();
            if (bAuthFailed == true)
            {
                this.lblErrors.Text = "Forms Authentication Required";
                this.chkLoginRequired.Checked = true;
                this.txtUsername.Focus();
                bAuthFailed = false;
                return;
            }
            else if(e.Result != null)
            {
                // copy the list of filenames into the listbox
                foreach (string s in e.Result as string[])
                    this.lstDownloadFiles.Items.Add(s);
            }
        }

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