asmSelect not working with Coldfusion

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a asmSelect field on a form (method post), name it cities
2. Submit the form
3. Cities is not submitted with the form 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I would like to see the 
form field being submitted. All the other form fields are submitted, except 
cities.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
asmselect-1.0.4a-beta. Windows XP

Please provide any additional information below.
$(function() {
  $("select[multiple]").asmSelect({
  });
});         

<select id="AffectedDepartment" name="AffectedDepartment" size="5" 
multiple="multiple">

Original issue reported on code.google.com by fterr...@gmail.com on 24 Jan 2011 at 7:19

waseem02 / jquery-asmselect

asmSelect not working with Coldfusion #49