Found issue in Databridge
I discovered that the form data was not being saved at all because I upgraded to DW 6 and then upgraded to Databridge using Lion ... had to go back to DW 5 to re-generate the pages using previous dataassist - then opened up the page in DW 6 to insert the datepicker - problems occur when using databridge's data wizard .. datepicker seems ok .. also any use of bindings create a loop and crashes DW 6