QuickForm: setDefaults on tricky group

Hi all, I am trying to figure out how to get setDefaults to work on this group. Here is me setting the default: $defaultValues['investigator1'] = array('person'=>$default_peeps[0]); Here I define the options for the select: (this is what is causing the problem) $options = array('0' => 'Choose person') + $per_res; Here is the group: $investigator1[] = &HTML_QuickForm::createElement('select','person', '  is a primary investigator?', $options); $investigator1[] = &HTML_QuickForm::createElement('radio', 'yesno', 'Yes',null, 'Y'); $investigator1[] = &HTML_QuickForm::createElement('radio', 'yesno', 'No', null, 'N'); $res_p_edit_form->addGroup($investigator1, 'investigator1', 'Person:', ',&nbsp'); IF i remove the line where I set the value of $options and replace $options with $per_res in my select, the setDefaults works fine. The problem is that there are 5 of these groups, and I need to have a Choose Person with a value of 0 for the options that are not selected. Any help would be appreciated, - Charles