Dropdown buttons, defval and publsihing - which is it?

Friends,

Does it work? What I am trying to do is on my GL40, I am trying to force the dropdown button with Inquire, Page Up, Page Down, Release, etc, to default to Release. As you will see in the defval I set it to R but am obviously missing something else as well I think.

Something else odd is that I do not have access to publish files to our development (I know I am just the developer). But when we run the query to check the indexing settings of our customized forms on the LOGAN database, we show that our forms that need th eabove change done are not being indexed properly. Admins have stated it is the xml. I think I changed the xml enough to force it to point to the correct product line, I am at a loss.

So I guess there are 2 issues here: 1 is that I am trying to default to Release and the other is possibly a publsihing issue (which could be preventing the first item from showing).

Attached is a customized xml screen. Can anyone help? Thanks!