> It seems that the this.select is updated in the web page, but only > updates in the script code if I put the alarm statemen between them.
More like you tried to update the element before it has actually been
inserted. The request is fired asynchronously, while your next
function call is (per usual) synchronous.
One way to ensure the chain is to use both update and onSuccess:
http://jsfiddle.net/Vbrbb/
-- Sandy
