thanks for the reply, dongzky,

I think I understand what you are doing.

A couple of questions. Instead of having a form page and and action page, my
mgmt only wants one page, so the form page has to submit back to itself. I will
have all teh action page processing above the form/cfform statment, and the
html form below the form/cfform statement.
Will your example still work and is the form variable still treated as if it
was submitted to another page ?

Also, if I have multiple checkboxes and they all have the same name, how will
that work with your example ?

thanks