[eluser]billmce[/eluser]
Ahhh ... we got it. Thanks to Ben and Brennan McEachran.
The crux of the problem is that set_value expects that both of the values passed to it have some value.
On the second pass, after validation failure, there is no value in the variables because I only got the data once .. the first pass when I actually need it to populate the view.
As Ben and Brennan noticed ... I had to re-retrieve the data on the 2nd and subsequent passes (even though I'm not going to use it) in order to keep set_value happy.
So, with the addition of a hidden value on the form to keep track of the $UniqContactID that was originally passed to the function -- on all subsequent iterations set_value has values in both
'Company' and $Company and behaves as advertised.
I'd suggest that set_values optional parameter behave differently ... but hey, it's now working.
Thanks Ben and Brennan ... I can feel my headache slowly subsiding.
