Found it,, had to add checked="checked" to the html code of the form..
Now the hard part, trying to get the total # of members attending that was posted in
#116 to work on the FORUMHOME and my portal pages.. Not even sure of where to start... Only need the count so it would need to make the whole call like the script does. Just a call to what eventid and count how many are marked to attend. Hmmmm.