I am now using the initial Javascript feature, thank you David.
Now the SQL driven combo is still a mystery. Are you saying it should run on form open by design? If it is, it is missing some of it's inputs. The SQL driven combo uses the values of a couple nearby textboxes as criteria in its select statement. Is it possible that it is not grabbing those values on form open because they are still loading in the form when the sql runs?
If so, is there a token I could use that I could pass to the SQL to represent the DNN Core field directly instead of the name of the textbox that is linked to the core field?