While working on a dasBlog bug report I found an interesting "feature" in ASP.Net 2.0.   There are a few controls on the configuration page that can be enabled on the client side via JavaScript.  This worked fine and dandy in asp.net 1.1 but in 2.0 it stopped working.  The controls that were enabled on the client side never had any value after postback (in this case it was a CheckboxList). 

After first thinking it had something to do with how dasBlog dynamically loads the configuration usercontrol dynamically it was time to dig into the toolbox for the trusty reflector.  It turns out that asp.net 2.0 won't load the postback data of a checkbox list (or a listbox or dropdownlist) if the control is not enabled. In asp.net 1.1 the control's postback data was always loaded.  Since the controls were being enabled on the client side and not on the server side the postback data was never loaded.

The easiest way to solve the problem is to enable the checkbox list before the postback data is loaded (OnInit or Page_Load).  If needed you can still disable the control later in the page lifecycle.