Hi Crafty, I looked at your example project. Try updating the AssociationMapping node in the Mapping section of your EDMX file to include a condition to allow for nulls.
e.g.
<AssociationSetMapping>
...
<Condition ColumnName="" IsNull="false"/>
</AssociationSetMapping>
Cheers,
Rob
theGecko
2008-12-03 12:45:20