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I am using drop down lists for a search engine on my site. The search engine
is used in 2 sections fo the site, for the public and for professionals, which
returns results from our DB. We are wholesalers that also sell to the public,
so results for public show public prices and results for professionals shows
professional prices.

Now, before the pros can get to the search engine for pros they are requred to
enter a password (the same password for all of them, so no pwd management here
other than to verify that they have entered the one password for the pro DB
access).

Then they are automatically forwarded to the search engine which will return
pro prices.

Here's the weird thing. The search engine is EXACTLY the same for both types
of users...that is, the calls made to teh DB and the drop down menus offered
are IDENTICAL. The only difference is that the results will either show pro
prices or public prices.

The search engine for the public works perfectly. Each list contains values
that can be chosen to narrow the search.
Users can select from 4 different lists (cumulatively if desired). This works
great. The list fields all update to show the selection the user has made and
allows them to either continuew refining their search with the remaining lists
or search with the already chosen criteria.

BUT for the pro search engine - which I remind you is the EXACT same code for
the lists...there is a wierdness happening that I am flummoxed to fix. Here it
is:

You enter the password and are sent to the pro search engine. THe first list
shows the last item on the list, sometimes reverting to the first item (which
is "Select Family") after a few seconds. If you choose an itme on the first
list, the selection reverts to "Select Family" and after a few seconds pause,
shows the list item that was selected. This behavior is repeated on the
remaining 3 lists...except that they never intially show the last list item,
rather, they correctly show the first item (which is always Select X")

In other words, as you make your selections from the lists, (the first list of
which is showing the last item in the list) the list shows the first item for a
few seconds and then suddenly updates to show the list item that was chosen.

What's up with that?

We recently changed ISPs but absolutely nothing has changed in the code.

Have mercy and help me if you can....

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