Paul,
Thanks for getting back to me. I have discovered:
The end user testers who are logging this issue are using I.E. 6.0.2900...... so an old version of I.E.. I cannot recreate the problem on my I.E. version 7.0.5730....
I think that I am not going to spend any more time on this and just force a setFocus on exit of the field.
I was hoping that someone might have a browser setting that needed to be changed to keep this from happening.
Thanks again,
Rick Kuhlmann
Oh sorry, I cannot post the form as it is governnment...sorry.