Ok, I was also told the performance hit of overloading is fairly miniscule. My intentions for it were to create a user class that retrieves user data. This way if ever the user table changed ( more fields were added ) I could access them right away.

I guess I could have done the same with a get and set method, loading the data to an array to begin with and retrieve through methods. Oh well, just trying to get a better understanding of overloading. Thanks!