Sorry it has taken me a while to reply I only get to
work on this project in my spare time.

Here is a link that will show you what I did in order
to get the drop down to work inside the repeater:

www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/9/46787.aspx

The reason that I am using a repeater  is so I can have
the flexiblity of a table (i.e. colspan, multiple
headers) I don't no of a way to do this with other
controls.
The drop down is the only thing that is being update
in the repeater. The reason why I wanted to put the
drop down in the repeater is so I could have the
column that held the drop down span multiple columns
and line up correctly.

The next problem that I have ran into with nesting the
drop down in the repeater is that when I click  the
save button to take what has been selected  in the drop
down and save it to the database it get this error:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Here is the line of code that it errors on:
Row.Item("InsuranceStatus") =
CType(FindControl("DD_InsurPayAction"),
DropDownList).SelectedItem.Value

Any ideas?