Robert, I think your problem might be the same as mine.
If you uncheck the box "Store value", your field will become a simple and "visual" referente, but if I'm not mistaken It would be impossible to present in saved searches, if you keep the box checked, you would have to edit and save the record to get this refered value.
I resolved this way: I left the box "Store value" checked, removed this default value, used the feature mass update to update the already created records and then I developed a script to fill the field I want everytime a particular field changed.