Hi Chris,
You might try DHTML instructions:

myElement=document.createElement("option"); instead of  myElement = new
Option(...);
*****
	with (mySelect)
	{
		while (children.length>0){
			myElement=lastChild;			// or children.item(0);
			removeChild(myElement);
		}
	}

  instead of  mySelect.optiond[0]=null;
*******
and

mySelect.appendChild(myElement);  instead of  mySelects.options[optionElem]
= myElement;
****
Please keep me informed of your experience because removing and adding
options seems to function erraticly.

My program sometimes works perfectly, at other times produces an unnamed
error to transmit to Microsoft and instructs me to restart the computer if
the phenomena repeats itself!!!

Good luck,
Louis