Detect remote panel connections?

Is there a way for my VI to 'detect' when someone has connected to it with a Remote Panel and requested control?
I have an issue (due to the size/complexity of my VI I'm sure) that when a RP gains control, after a period of time, the main VI begins to slow down and starts to lose data (it's coming from a TCP connection)!
I'd like to be able to see when a RP gains control, and automatically log them off after a period of time (5 min?). I know that there is a connection time-out on the web publishing page, but it appears to only come into play if 1 RP has control and another requests it. I need to be able to limit the control time of a single RP.
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Cory,
Well, it almost worked...
I'm attaching my little test program 'RP Control.vi'. I've compiled this into an executable that's in my server path, so I can get to it from my laptop (on my network). When I run it from my server, I can press my 'Start' button and nothing happens--no client RP's are connected, so this is as expected.
When I connect via my laptop to the server, my laptop is now the remote client, but it's hasn't requested control -- again, nothing happens when I press my 'Start' button.
When the laptop requests control of the VI, and I press the 'Start' button from the laptop, I see all my data fields filled in, and I show my calculated 'End Time?' which is 1 minute after the laptop got control.
I can then keep pressing my 'Start' button, and see the 'Time Now' update, and when 1 minute elapses, I see my 'Close' LED turn on, indicating I should have activated the 'Close Connection To Client'.
However, the laptop still has control of the VI...it hasn't returned to the server.
Any suggestions as to what I may be doing wrong, or does the 'Close Connection To Client' work differently?
<edited>
Looking at the Method - 'RP.Close Connection To Client' does this return control of the VI to the server copy (which is what I want to do), or does it try to completely disconnect the Remote Panel (which is not what I'm looking for)?
Message Edited by Steve257 on 09-17-2009 02:47 PM
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