>Bret,
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>No, it does not reset the newitemid for the combo. The itemid is kept for the lifetime of the combo once it has been assigned. You shouldn't need to worry about it though as there is no problem with repopulating the cleared combo with new itemids

So my code is flawed in the fact that I used the newitemid as a counter that I thought would corresponded to the LISTINDEX when a combo box was cleared.