I just added a text box to the same user control containing the asp:dropdownlist. I set the value of this text box to the selecteditem in the changed selection event of the drop down list. The text box is retaining the value after postback although the drop down list is resetting. Very strange.

You said that the dropdowns dont have a datasource associated with them, so the values are added progmatically? What I *think* is happening is that when there is a postback, the dropdownlists are being repopulated and the selectedindex is getting setting back to 0.

You may want to see if that code is being exectued more then once.

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I thought the same at first, but breakpoints placed in the logic that builds the drop down list aren't being hit on postback. The function calls associated with that code are inside an IS POSTBACK on the enclosing form. There is no automatic construction for the object inside, for example, the page_init method or anything like that.

I found the *&^%$# problem finally!

ddColors.SelectedIndex = -1

Apparently I wasn't paying enough attention while trying to resolve the "multiple values selected" problem and stuck this line at the beginning of the GET property code for the selected value, rather than the SET code. So every time it went to get the selected value, which it did on postback, it was resetting the selection. D'oh!

Thanks everybody!