Accessing ConnectionString From ConnectionManager In A Script Task Ends With Login Failed! WHY!!

So in a script task for one of my packages I have a connection manager to an dtsConfig OLE DB.

This is the code

Dim ConnectionString As String = Dts.Connections("db_stage").ConnectionString
Dim sqlConnection As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection(ConnectionString )

I get a login failed for
user...But if I hardcode the connectionString, including the password this works.

1) Why is it that the ConnectionString from the connection manager omits this password?
2) Since this is an OLE DB, is there anyway to set the Data Source Designer to omit the "Provider=ABCDED.1" section?

Thanks!
Tony