>Chuck,
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>Change the combo's style to dropdownlist. hence they can't type in anything that isn't in the list.

Yea, I thought of that one, but when I 'finished' the source code, I went to my boss's office so he & I could take a look together, and, wouldn't ya know, one of the first things he did was to try to use the edit area of the combo box (ughhh).