Hi BoxTurtle,
I think the problem is that your drop-down list is outside of the repeating section. You should really have an instance on each row that the user can then select from the list of values. How does the user specify which row in the table they want to populate if the drop-down is outside of the repeating table?
Matt Faus / Microsoft InfoPath MVPQdabra® Software / Streamline data gathering to turn process into knowledge