Hi Nathan,
Hmm... I am not aware of the SQL Binding feature not working with the country field but its possible this is just something that has not been reported. Are you also using the DNN Region field or just DNN Country? If you are just using the DNN Country field then a possible work around might be to use a combo box field instead of the DNN Country field. The other option is that maybe it is storing a value like UK instead of United Kingdom and then from there it is looking for the TEXT instead of the VALUE for the binding (or the other way around?).
On the other issue... The problem here is that HTML Textbox fields in general (when using the MaxLength property) do not allow a setting such as this. So this isn't really something we can control directly... We do offer a way to do this if you check out and implement the demonstration #7 here:
http://www.datasprings.com/products...stration-6 Thanks,
Chad