Sequence question drop-down list gets hung up on punctuation

I'm making a sequence question. In drag-and-drop mode, it
works fine. But in the drop-down list mode, it breaks. In other
words, even if it is displaying correctly, it is "wrong" when the
enduser tries to sequence the choices.
I assume that this is because one of my items has punctuation
in it.
It's a person's name, so it looks like this:
Lastname, FirstInitial.
Or it could be even two people:
Lastname, FirstInitial. & Lastname, FirstInitial.
Is there a way to escape the commas and periods? (I'm willing
to give up on ampersand!) Use ASCII, escape ActionScript or
JavaScript? I'm not likely to solve the problem by experimenting,
so I'm wondering if someone else has figured this out. THANKS.
(I tried searching the forum, but searching does not seem to
be working for me)

I can't help you with this myself as I've not done it but there are quite a few tutorials kicking around the net.
Simple ODBC Connections in Adobe LiveCycle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C56_Cz-aE0c
Connecting a form to a database:
http://forms.stefcameron.com/2006/09/18/connecting-a-form-to-a-database/
Database connected forms:
http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/database-connected-forms

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