Forms Data Controls :: Deserialing Binary Stream And Loading To Chart?

I have a MS Chart Control and I'm trying to serialize the chart to view state. When teh page postbacks, I wnat to de-serialize the chart from ViewState, then load it back to the Chart's serializer. When the Chart1.Serializer.Load is called, I get an error message stating Data at the root level is invalid, line 1 position 1.

So here's what I have:

Chart1.Serializer.Format = System.Web.UI.DataVisualization.Charting.SerializationFormat.Binary;
Chart1.Serializer.Content = System.Web.UI.DataVisualization.Charting.SerializationContents.All;
Chart1.Serializer.Save(myStream);
ViewState["myStream"] = myStream.ToArray();
On postback, when the routine is called:
System.Byte [] byters;
System.IO.MemoryStream myStream = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
if (ViewState["myStream"] != null)
{
byters = (System.Byte[])ViewState["myStream"];
myStream.Write(byters,0,byters.Length);
myStream.Position = 0;
Chart1.Serializer.Load(myStream); // this line throws a XmlException - data at the root level is invalid. line 1 , position 1.
}

The length of the stream was 15,518 and capacity was 16,384 when it made the save. On postback, both capacity and length became 15,518.