my dropdownlist conundrum

[rodchar]

hey all,

simple test that i help passing please:
i have a "culture" dropdownlist with just 2 values (en-US and de-DE)
and a single "hello world" label on a web page that is localized.

according to msdn docs the culture has to be set real early in the page
cycle (in the InitializeCulture override to be exact)

how would i then synchronize the dropdownlist with the label if the
dropdownlist.selectedvalue is not available in the InitializeCulture override?

thanks,
rodchar