My understanding of AJAX is it's supposed to aid in minimizing the amount of postbacks so the user experience is enhanced. It wouldn't make sense to use AJAX to initialize a page with my understanding.

>Yes, I see what it is doing. Any reason why you just don't do the initial ddl population through .NET code in the Page_Load event? You wouldn't really need AJAX for that, would you?
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>Bill
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>>Here is the page. It still has some "issues", like it doesn't load until you click the combobox. I think it has to do with the readystate property. Actually, it starts with the combo boxes empty, then when you click, it statrts the ajax call, which was supposed to start in the body onload(). So you wind up clicking it three times before it fills with data. I'll work it out, because it is pulling the data and loading the combo, just not at the right time right now.
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>>http://www.shelbynet.com/wconnect/compareofficials.htm
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>>John