I tried upgrading to Q1 2013 and am having a problem with speed. In the past some of these big multi-combos were slow but we were able to speed it up by not using size to fit. Now the speed is horrible, especially for the large table. It looks like nothing is happening for quite a while when I click on the drop down button.

WORKAROUND: 
You can call the LoadElementTree method for every combobox in the end of your Load event handler