>Bill,
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>>Definitely not a timing issue in this case and the second syntax you cited above did the trick.
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>Just curious... what was the property? The use of .object.property is suggested when there is a conflict between an object property name and a DHTML container property of the same name, such as .width .

David,

At your implication, I went back and retested w/o the ."object" reference ( i.e. "document.all.MyObject.property" ) and it worked fine also. Just FYI, the property name is "UserName."