Cfselect not showing cfc bound data

Question

I have a CFC that works fine. I can access it directly and get data etc. I even have it working find on another server with the same datasource. I am binding the cfc to a cfselect like so.
<cfform>
<cfselect name="category" bind="cfc:cfc.GetCategory.getCategory()" bindonload="true"></cfselect>
</cfform>
My cfc is located in a directory name cfc. The name is GetCategory.cfc and the method is getCategory. I an access it fine by goign to the URL as so.
http://siteurl/cfc/GetCategory.cfc?method=getCategory
It displays the data fine.
However when I try to look at the page the cfselect is on it shows me an empty drop down box with no selections. I can see using the cfdebug in the url that the cfc is being executed properly and returning data. It is just not showing up in the drop down. I have been banging my head against this one for a few days now so any outside eyes would be helpful. Anybody else run into this issue where the cfc works fine but does not appear to be binding to the cfselect for whatever reason? Keep in mind this code is working fine on another CF9 machine with a very similar setup.

Answer 1

Hedge-nfylYo wrote:
Ok I found something else interesting. I don't know what it means but maybe somebody here does. Here is a screenshot from both sites.
The one that is NOT working.
I noticed on the one that is working there is an additional checkbox at the bottom of the debugger screen for bind (I circled it in red) and on the site where the controls do not appear to be binding there is no such checkbox. I would think this leads weight to my idea that for whatever reason on the top screenshot the data is not being binded to the cfselect controls for some reason. The code is exactly the same. The databases are exactly the same. The only difference here is servers. Does this give any ideas?
The data appears to be coming in, so this should work. Furthermore, I see that the data represents an array of dimension [n][2], which is equivalent to a two-column result set, hence equivalent to a query. That's yet another reason why it should work.
Take a look at the following modified version of the example I gave earlier. It might contain themes relevant to your case.
Employee.cfc
<cfcomponent output="false">
<cffunction name="getEmployee" access="remote" output="false" returntype="array">
<cfset var getAllEmployees = queryNew("","")>
<cfset var arr = arrayNew(2)>
<cfquery name = "getAllEmployees" dataSource = "cfdocexamples">
    SELECT Emp_ID,  FirstName || ' ' || LastName as Name
    FROM Employees
</cfquery>
<cfloop query="GetAllEmployees">
<cfset arr[currentrow][1]=emp_id>
<cfset arr[currentrow][2]=name>
</cfloop>
<cfreturn arr>
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>
selectEmployee.cfm
<cfform>
<cfselect value="emp_id" display="name" name="employee" bind="cfc:Employee.getEmployee()" bindonload="true"></cfselect>
</cfform>