David,
in the end I resorted to the Helpfile, if the style property is set to
"Dropdown List" the ReadOnly property is ReadOnly!, guess what mine was set to!

Thanks for your time and sorry for wasting it
Pete Kane

>Peter,
>
>On my website is a PageRefresher object that my cPageFrame add to each page at Init() time this way you don't pay the performance penalty of Refreshing a page until the user views it.
>
>What are the cbos that aren't refreshing bound to?
>
>>>In my base pageframe class I have the following code in the refresh event
>>>
>>>for i = 1 to this.pagecount
>>this.pages[i].refresh()
>>endfor