Combo Box data error

[Honey]

In a form for entering horse information, I have a created 2 Combo Boxes to
look up a horse's sire and dam from within the database with an after update
event to put the Sire's / Dam's horse ID number into the next field, and this
works fine during data entry; however, if I leave the form and come back
into it, the names of the sires and dams are different (seemingly random),
but the sire's / dam's horse id value is correct. Any idea why this happens
and what to do to correct it?

Thanks, Honey

 

[scubadiver]

Are the two combo boxes bound to fields in a table?

 

[Honey]

Yes, they are bound to the field that contains the Sire's / Dam's name. Also
tried it with them bound to the column that contained the Sire's / Dam's ID
number.

Honey