Saving select box elements to a database

ok, I’ve conquered buttons and checkboxes working in forms and saving/retrieving values from a database. Now, I’m trying to get my select boxes to do the same. The select box, name and value elements are manually entered in the properties panel. I tried to asssign the value and the name dynamic attributes to fields in the database to retrieve and store but that’s not working. Can you please guide me. I’ve re-read the doc on select menus but that didn’t really help with what I was trying to do.
The problem I see is that when I go to the server connect side and get global post fields using the by input from form option, I don’t see a field for the select box. That’s weird. Shouldn’t I be seeing something?

Rick