Like I said above, I had to add another button to reload the page to actually clear that value. "Resetting" a form with a 'reset' button ALSO reloads the Original form data. That's the way that browsers do that. All browsers.
The way that banks handle that problem is to clear all values every time with an 'onload' function in the body tag. <body onload="clearall();"> You have to write the clearall() function for your page. If you do that, then it doesn't matter what was there, it gets erased on page load and page refresh every time.