Not sure....I found a simple workaround using Refresh but it still irks me.

>You can't do it from inside the Listbox.Init. It has to be done post ListBox.Init(). Although I wonder if a ListBox::Init() first and then the Selected() code with a NODEFAULT would help?
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>>I suggested setting a property default to .T. and then, if true, do the selects in Form.Refresh and turn off the flag. I tried moving the code from Init to a custom method called from Init but no cigar.