Trying To Use AutoMapper For Model With Child Collections, Getting Null Error In .Net MVC 3

I'm completely new to AutoMapper, and I have a View that looks like this:

@using (Html.BeginForm(null, null, FormMethod.Post, new { enctype = "multipart/form-data" }))
{
@Html.ValidationSummary(true)
<fieldset>
<legend>Consultant</legend> [code]...

This is pretty much the same error I got when trying to use the entity object directly as model, rather than having AutoMapper create a ViewModel. So what am I doing wrong? This is driving me crazy...

UPDATE 3:Well, neverending story... I found some info on using UseDestinationValue on the CreateMap method in AutoMapper. So I tried that, and well, that actually got me a bit further. But...now I get a new exception on SaveChanges() (in the EF model). The exception now is: "The operation failed: The relationship could not be changed because one or more of the foreign-key properties is non-nullable." This appears to be an exception that also occurs when trying to delete child objects in a one-to-many relationship if you don't have cascade delete set, but that's not what I'm trying to do here...

Here's the updated CreateMap methods:Mapper.CreateMap<ConsultantViewModel, Consultant>().ForMember("Id", opts => opts.Ignore()).ForMember(
x => x.Programs, opts => opts.UseDestinationValue());
Mapper.CreateMap<Consultant, ConsultantViewModel>();