Thanks it was worth a try, but I did verify that the email settings are configured. As I mentioned above, the workflows email without issue from one site, and its parent site collection, but not from the new site collection.

It turns out it was failing when I tried to get the web applications from SPWebService. All I needed was to wrap that piece in a 'RunWithElevatedPrivileges' block.

thanks this got me thinking. I commented out everything from the page_load event and the page now loads. Now i have to figure out what in there is causing the problem. All I am doing is looping through all webapps, site cols, and sites and printing out their URLs to the screen

I have tried that but I don't see any way to make it display all 3 views in the same chart :(

I thought about this, but is it possible to have 3 different views as a data source in a chart? I tried to see if I could use each view for a different series in a single chart, but I could not figure out how