Tom,
I am an idiot <g>. The problem was the trailing spaces in the values of the drop down list.
Sorry for wasting your time (and mine too <g>).
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham