You mean you never actually bind them?, if not, how does the data go into the table?, are you sure it's even getting there?. If there is nothing binding the textbox to a field then there's no reason for them to go blank when you insert a new record.

>I add some textboxes to the form in run-time. The controlsource for >these textboxes is left blank. I add one record and type something in >each textbox. I save this record and then add another one. All >textboxes have the values from the previous record!