Thanks Sergey! The <a4j:region> did the trick. The <a4j:outputPanel> is quite handy! Haven't used that before. When I added that it revealed an exception trying to set a null value to the month pulldown. It really shouldn't have been trying to do anything with the month field, so using the region "focused" a4j into doing what I wanted. Thanks again! Greg View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4035026#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...