InfoPath Dev

 Thank you Hilary - you are the best!

 Ah, I think I see part of my problem. InfoPath does not see unchecking a box as a change. Only boxes getting checked are a change.

So here is what I am running into. Create a list add a multi-select with three choices. Then make an InfoPath form out of it. Add a text box and try to get that text box to reliably tell you how many boxes have been checked both on creation of a list item, and on edit of an item. It should be a simple count(value) of the multi-select, which ...