QuickForm Question

I thought I would try rephrasing my question in hopes that someone can point me to the code bit that is causing my problem. This is how it looks to me. I have two independent pages of an application. Each instantiates a QuickForm object. Page 1 creates three text elements, "element1", "element2", and "element3". These get submitted to Page 2 using the POST method. On page two, I create two PHP variables - one is $element1, the other $element2. They may or may not have the same values as the variables from Page 1. I instantiate a form and set default values for 'element1' and 'element2' to $element1 and $element2, respectively. However, when I display the form I see the submitted values, rather than the ones that I set as defaults. Why is this happening? Where in the code does Quickform give preference to submitted data over explicitly set default data? Thanks for your help. -- James 'Chip' Kaufman jkaufman@wamnetgov.com 952-346-3532 PGP key: 697D43DE