Thanks, so it's either or...

I also think it's because I had some attribute that had text fields, so there's no way of really checking for stock (since I suppose that would be custom product and will not work in this instance). I tried it with drop down selection of attributes and that worked fine.

Thanks TR! I've read from another post you were updating Inventory/Simple Stock Levels module from now on - what kind of feature are you working on and how is it going?