Drop down lookup not working

Greetings,

I have a drop down data bound item on my page for Ethnicity.
But i think it contains a virus ;-o

When the data is bound according to the documentations from the site collection the lookup data is not displayed in publish mode.
I am unable to verify that the records exist in design mode except looking at the lookup collection of ethnicity.

is there any ways possible to fix this?
I’ve read some samples that it is a permissions issue - but these issues was 2 years ago.
I do not believe that i have the same type of issue.

I have tried to bound it on ID and text field of ethnicity.

Kind Regards,
Chris

Did you sync your sandbox database to the Live database?