hi leo,

that behavior for the LOV combo does not sound like what i would expect, but i cant say much without looking at the code. the behavior you describe sounds like something is applying a filter on the store - any chance some code is doing this?

i'm not aware of anything using a basic <select>.

i have a vague recollection of seeing a paged combo list like you describe; however, it would probably be ext4. if you have a really long list I might consider just supporting type-ahead (ext combos can do this).