Disconnected recordsets should work exactly the same as a normal recordset in every way as far as I know (I haven't coded one for quite some time though).
What sort of error are you getting, maybe a snippet of your code posted would be handy for us to try and help you with.
The error was cannot insert null into field (becuase nulls are not allowed). I set the AdFldIsNullable and the field will accept NULLs. AdFldIsNullable is a constant set in the adovbs.inc (or meta tag in my case) I believe. didn't look into it - since it worked.
If the field in the underlying data source doesn't accept nulls you won't be able to reconnect and update the db even though you have allowed nulls in your disconnected recordset.