>I've moved an older system into VPM.
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>The system has a couple of reports that have the user name as part of the selection criteria. These names are displayed in a combo box linked to the user table...
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>In VPM, the user table is encrypted so how do I retain the user-name-combo-box?

How about having an app-specific version of the login screen, which will echo the unencrypted name of the user into a table of your own, after a successful login? This way, you'll soon have all the users without encryption.