>OIC!
>I haven't bound any controls to properties that were NULL. YIKES! I didn't have any trouble with keeping focus, but the updates didn't stick!
>It appears that Valid() doesn't fire and by the time LostFocus() fires, the value is back to NULL.
>I'll have to play with this one when things settle down. (Next month <g>)

Thats where I got. I was able to get it to keep focus, but then the updates no longer stuck. weird. I have since found that it does not do that behavior when bound to a table field.