Coldfusion cfselect bind only works when cfdebug is enabled - coldfusion

Question

I have a cfselect statement that is bound to a remote cfc. It passes the value of another element in the form to the cfc in order to populate the cfselect. I was running this code with cfdebug enabled and it seemed to be working fine, but I found that if I do not have cfdebug enabled nothing is populated. I am not getting any other errors that I know of, and I have tried it in chrome and mozilla - same problem.
Here is my cfselect:
<cfselect name="intlRepID" id="intlRepID" required="yes" value="userID" display="businessName" bind="cfc:nsmg.extensions.components.user.getIntlRepRemote({programID})" bindonload="true" />
Here is my remote function:
<cffunction name="getIntlRepRemote" access="remote" returntype="array" output="false" hint="Gets a list of Intl. Reps. assigned to a candidate">
<cfargument name="programID" default="" hint="Get Intl. Reps. Based on a list of program ids">
<cfscript>
// Define variables
var qGetIntlRepRemote='';
var result=ArrayNew(2);
var i=0;
</cfscript>
<cfquery
name="qGetIntlRepRemote"
datasource="#APPLICATION.DSN#">
SELECT
u.userID,
u.businessName
FROM
smg_users u
INNER JOIN
smg_students s ON s.intRep = u.userID
WHERE
s.companyid = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_integer" value="#CLIENT.companyid#">
<cfif LEN(ARGUMENTS.programID)>
AND
s.programID IN ( <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_integer" value="#ARGUMENTS.programID#" list="yes"> )
</cfif>
AND
s.active = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_integer" value="1">
GROUP BY
u.userID
ORDER BY
u.businessName
</cfquery>
<cfscript>
// Add default value
result[1][1]=0;
result[1][2]="---- All - Total of " & qGetIntlRepRemote.recordCount & " International Representatives ----" ;
// Convert results to array
For (i=1;i LTE qGetIntlRepRemote.Recordcount; i=i+1) {
result[i+1][1]=qGetIntlRepRemote.userID[i];
result[i+1][2]=qGetIntlRepRemote.businessName[i];
}
return result;
</cfscript>
</cffunction>