Hi Wes,

My struggles with this page continue. I hope you are still willing to help.  So now that I have managed to get the second picklist to reRender with values as defined by the selection made in the first picklist. It is now my wish to use the Render attribute on that second picklist so that it only appears on the screen when a value has been picked for the picklist it is dependent on. So,the way I have set this up is to have a Boolean property that returns true when the variable fed by the first picklist does not equal null, which is the same condition that I have used to control the selection of the values for the second selectList. The condition works in the method that creates the selecList but not in the property that controls its apperance...strange. To debug this I tried making it so that the property would always return true to test wether or not my the value in my Render attribute was actually finding the property. That worked fine. And, worked as expected when I made it return false as well. So, it seems to me there is either something wrong in my syntax in the property, which I don't think there is, or there is something I don't understand about the order of execution. I have posted the code below and underlined the segments that should be the focus.

<apex:page controller="eventLineUPController" id="thePage">
<apex:form >
<apex:pageBlock id="thePageBlock1">
<apex:pageBlockSection title="Event Line Up Wizard" collapsible="false" columns="1" id="teamSelectSection">
<apex:pageBlockSectionItem >
<apex:outputPanel id="OP1">
<apex:outputText ><h1>Please Select a Team</h1></apex:outputText>
<apex:actionRegion id="AR1">
<apex:selectList id="teamList" value="{!selectedTeam}" size="1">
<apex:selectOptions value="{!TeamOptions}"/>
<apex:actionSupport event="onchange" reRender="OP2"/>
</apex:selectList>
</apex:actionRegion>
</apex:outputPanel>
</apex:pageBlockSectionItem>
<apex:pageBlockSectionItem id="meetSelectionSection" rendered="{!showMeetOptions}">
<apex:outputPanel id="OP2" >
<apex:outputText ><h1>Please Select a Meet</h1></apex:outputText>
<apex:actionRegion id="AR2">
<apex:selectList id="meetList" value="{!selectedMeet}" size="1">
<apex:selectOptions value="{!MeetOptions}"/>
<apex:actionSupport event="onchange" reRender="OP3"/>
</apex:selectList>
</apex:actionRegion>
</apex:outputPanel>
</apex:pageBlockSectionItem>
<apex:pageBlockSectionItem id="eventSelectionSection">
<apex:outputPanel id="OP3">
<apex:outputText ><h1>Please Select an Event</h1></apex:outputText>
<apex:actionRegion id="AR3">
<apex:selectList id="eventList" value="{!selectedEvent}" size="1">
<apex:selectOptions value="{!eventOptions}"/>
</apex:selectList>
</apex:actionRegion>
</apex:outputPanel>
</apex:pageBlockSectionItem>
</apex:pageBlockSection>
</apex:pageBlock>
</apex:form>
</apex:page>

public class eventLineUPController {

//Current Page and User
ID UP = Userinfo.getUserID();
String pageRef = ApexPages.CurrentPage().getURL();
User elUser = [select ID, Name, BusinessChannel__c from User where ID =:UP];

//SelectOption Variables
public String SelectedTeam {get; set;}
public String selectedMeet {get; set;}
public String selectedEvent {get; set;}
public List<Meet__c> Meets {get; set;}
public List<Events__c> Events {get; set;}
public List<Contact> Swimmers {get; set;}

//Sets up list of Teams according to user
public Set<ID> myTeams = new Set<ID>();
public void setUpMyTeams() {
for(AccountResponsibility__c[] teamResps : [select Account__c from AccountResponsibility__c where User__c =:UP ORDER BY LastModifiedDate Limit 1000]) {
for(AccountResponsibility__c teamResp : teamResps) {
myTeams.add(teamResp.Account__c);
}
}
}

public Integer Limiter{get; set;}


//CONSTRUCTOR
public eventLineUPController() {
this.limiter = (null!=System.currentPageReference().getParameters().get('limit'))?Integer.valueOf(System.currentPageReference().getParameters().get('limit')):10;
this.setUpMyTeams();
}


//DISPLAY CONTROLS
public Boolean showMeetOptions{
//if a team has been selected then this enables the rerender of the meet section of the page so that a meet can be chosen
get {
return Null != this.selectedTeam;
}

}

//TEAMS METHODS
public List<SelectOption> getTeamOptions() {
List<SelectOption> coachesTeams = new List<SelectOption>();
coachesTeams.add(new SelectOption('',''));
for(Account Team : [Select Id, Name from Account where ID IN :myTeams ORDER BY Name]) {
coachesTeams.add(new SelectOption(Team.ID,Team.Name));
}
return coachesTeams;
}



//MEET METHODS
public List<SelectOption> getMeetOptions() {
List<ID> filteredMeets = new List<ID>();
List<SelectOption> coachesMeets = new List<SelectOption>();
if(Null != this.selectedTeam) {
for(MeetCompetitors__c M1 : [select ID, Name,Meet__c from MeetCompetitors__c where CompetingTeam__c = :this.selectedTeam]) {
//system.assert(false,'These are your meets '+M1.Meet__c);
filteredMeets.add(M1.Meet__c);
}
coachesMeets.add(new SelectOption('',''));
for(Meet__c Meet : [Select Id, Name from Meet__c where ID IN :filteredMeets ORDER BY Name]) {
coachesMeets.add(new SelectOption(Meet.ID,Meet.Name));
}
}
return coachesMeets;
}


//EVENT METHODS
public List<SelectOption> getEventOptions() {
List<ID> filteredEvents = new List<ID>();
List<SelectOption> eventOptions = new List<SelectOption>();
if(null != this.selectedMeet) {
for(MeetsEvents__c eventGrabber : [select ID, Events__c, Name, Meet__c from MeetsEvents__c where Meet__c = :this.selectedMeet ]) {
filteredEvents.add(eventGrabber.Events__c);
}
eventOptions.add(new SelectOption('',''));
for(Events__c eventOption : [Select ID, Name from Events__c where ID IN :filteredEvents ORDER BY Name]) {
eventOptions.add(new SelectOption(eventOption.ID, eventOption.Name));
}
}
return eventOptions;
}


}