Hi Shiva,
thanks for the help - but the value of the drop down (from previous selection) and the texbox (from previous selection) still repeats/carries over when i insert another section.
Greg Collin's post (http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/greg/archive/2005/07/14/Create-a-Repeating-Cascading-List-from-a-Hierarchical-Data-Source.aspx) does not address this issue.
Soham Bhatt