>>>The problem is if it is left there and I start trying to scroll with my mouse wheel, windows start opening up, and IE just goes freaking crazy. This is because the dropdown still had focus and I am wheeling through the choices. You can still see this behaviour [but not as radical] in other dropdowns.
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>>After reading this, Mark, I tried a few things. Scrolling the wheel with the pointer on the dropdown box causes that behaviour when that box has focus NO MATTER WHICH LINE is showing. I say this even though I can't really test it, because I get the behaviour even when it sits at More:. So I guess no matter where it was it would still do it.
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>>In other words, if this has been done deliberately (always reset back to More:) to fix the shortcoming in IE (wheeling fires whatever), then it doesn't work anyway. So I think that it should be revised as originally suggested and that people simply have to learn to NOT WHEEL through that control.
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>I no longer see this problem since I am using IE 5.5. I had horrific problems in earlier versions of IE or the UT UI or both in the past. I would wheel-of about 20 or more IE windows about as fast as a machine gun can fire off 20 rounds.
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>I do agree the user needs to be more alert to what they are doing.

Hmmmm...I'm using IE 5.5 SP2 with a couple of Qs added (security I think) and I still see it (not machine-gun firings, but 2 windows that I didn't want/need/AskFor). Wonder if the mouse driver has anything to do with it?