Recently the site has been having problems with the Captcha control. The use of the Captcha for say a contact form greatly eliminates spam by presenting the user with a challenge and response test, the idea being that only humans can pass the test.
Unfortunately my Captcha wasn't working too well. Despite the correct code being entered a message was displayed informing the user to try again. It appeared to be a postback problem, which was resolved by removing some data access code from the the Page_Load event in the code behind of the Master page and placing it in the Page_PreRender event in the code behind.
This seems to have done the trick, my Captcha control is finally working!