I had a wild thought and changed the select box definition.
First I dropped the 'selected' attribute. That solved the problem.
Then I added it back, but as such: selected="selected". That worked too.
My DOCTYPE is HTML 4.01 Transitional, and I remembered reading about all
attributes must now have a value, even the ones that didn't normally
require one.
I hope this helps some other programmer save some time.
