>>Hi Dorris.
>>
>>Call the Requery method of the combobox to force it to refresh its list.
>>
>>Doug
>
>Already tried that, no change. But now here's the kicker. If I pull just the firstname, lastname and cboSelectPerson (the combobox) fields off the form to a separate form (running the same code), it works.
>
>On the Original form I've tried:
>Requery - no change
>setting the RowSource to '' before setting everything - no change.
>changing the name of the combobox - no change
>
>I've walked the code and watched the underlying cursor get populated, so I know there are data to go into the silly thing
>
>I've got a combobox acting like there's an empty cursor behind it. click on the down arrow and nothing happens

Did you check for any conflicts in identifier names? (i.e. make sure you don't have conflicts in names of alias, field names, variables, tag names, etc.)
For example, you might want to make sure that you don't have a table included into the project that has the same name as the cursor.