Eric,
See my message to Bruce for the solution. When the value of the control is NULL, it's already back to NULL in the control's LostFocus(). I didn't try other events like Valid, but maybe I'll take a look just to see what's going on.
>This is strange. I am interested to know if after you have pasted the text into the box and before it dissappears, if the editbox.value property reflects the pasted in text...