The tab order goes in order the form controls where added on to the page
when the page is built. You might try a new blank page and copy the earlier
controls to it followed by the new controls and see if that works.

Using Publisher 2003, I had this problem too, then I
tried...sending the form controls to the "Front"
or "Back" using "ORDER".  Right-click on a control.. then
select "Order" and send it to the front or back.  

If you start with the control at the top of your page,
and "Bring it to the Front", then go to the next one,
bring that one to the front, by the time you reach the
last control at the bottom of the page, the last control
will be in front, and the first control at the top will
be in the back.

When you publish the page, you should be able to tab
through them from the top control, all the way to the
bottom one.

-Wes Mosier
aesrock@yahoo.com
-AES Inc.