ie8 and selectedIndex and windows.onload issue

Hello,

To set the selected index of my dynamic list, I tried to use:


 // Runs on load of page and after submit work is done
 window.onload = function(){
  var sSel = document.getElementById("server");
  sSel.selectedIndex = 0;
                  // the next call that creates a dynamic listbox fails.  It does not
                  // see anything called server either in the selOptions() function.
  org.cote.js.xml.getXml('/apps/empower/authorize.xml',selOptions,1);
 }

It does not seem to understand what document.getElementById("server") is set to for some reason. It gives some message like null is null when I try to do the sSel.selectedIndex = 0.

However, if I add to the header a meta (I removed the open and closing of the meta so it would display here):


meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"

It sets the value for sSel just fine. What changed with ie8 that is making this fail?

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