Last try is to create a new combobox with these settings.

BTW, I rarely use fields as RowSource, prefer to use cursor.

>Have blanked out controlsource; have tried setting BoundTo to both .T. and .F.; no change, result is still numeric.
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>>>Having just upgraded to SP2, I now am encountering an interesting problem with a combobox.
>>>
>>>The combobox has:

.RowSourceType = 6
>>>.RowSource = 'SolomonBins.Bin'
>>>.ControlSource = 'ThisForm.cBINto'

>>>
>>>SolomonBins.Bin is a character field; the dropdown list shows character values.
>>>
>>>However, the value for this combobox is now numeric (looks like ListIndex) rather than the the character value from the list.
>>>
>>>I haven't made any code changes to explain this.
>>>
>>>What gives?
>>
>>Where did you define thisform.cBlnTo?
>>
>>Can you reset controlsource to nothing for now and re-try?