>I have a combo box that gets all the items from a field in a table. the problem is only the first 9 items are assessable. Meaning that all the records in the field are displayed, but only the first 9(when they are clicked) are displayed after the combo box colapses. Is that clear, I think I am confusing when i try to explain problems. wel thanks for the help.

do you mean that only the first nine are 'selectable' and if you try to select any of the others it won't save your selection? if so, i'd guess that the field you're trying to store the answer to is numeric, one digit.