Problem forcing users to use a certain combobox first

Hi

I have a form designed to allow the manipulation of employee data
(assignments types, commission types and levels etc. The first thing a user
has to do is select the employee from a combo box whereupon the form fills
in with the current data. There are then 6 unbound combo boxes that
manipulate the current data by offering new selections and then in the
afterupdate event filling in fields through the application of formulas and
data transfers to the bound fields.

The problem is that when the user does not first select an employee but
instead starts with the field options in the other combos, access wants to
create a new record and once it does the employee cant' be selected util the
unwanted record is saved which I don't want to do - its trash.. I tried
intercepting the other combos in their before update, onclick and gotfocus
events but I get a strange error message of "The expression On Got Focus you
entered as the event property setting produced the following error:
Procedure declaration does not match description of event or procedure
having the same name." It then goes on to say that there may be a missing
reference or mispelled procedure name. Access created all the procedure
names and there are no missing references.

I've thought of simply hiding the other combos until they pick an employee
but that seems a little goofy.

Any ideas or smart options?

Thanks

Kevin

Any ideas