PirateEric, yes it is a big deal because the related values are not displaying in the second drop down list in this situation. there is nothing wrong with the relational integrity, the lookups work fine in the original lists themselves.
They are not different values, the values that are linked to index item x do not display when the text description of index item x contains consecutive spaces. I don't think that the display of the related data should not be affected by the descripton , it should only be affected by the ID value.