My guess is that you are re-binding items to the drop-down list during each post-back which will cause the Selec tedIndex to be reset (usually to -1 rather than 0 as you indicated, however).

In your code for handling the Page_Load event, wrap your code for binding items to the drop-down list in a Not Page.IsPostback condition:

If Not Page.IsPostback Then
        'Bind items to drop-down list here
        'Load controls with current values from database, etc. here
End If

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