Hello Mark,
This is outdated help documentation, indeed.
Thank you for reporting this to our team.
I will log it for an update and such will be provided soon after the upcoming release (Q2 2011).
The CheckChildNodes is always true when Tri-State Checkboxes are enabled.
Regards,
Nikolay Tsenkov
the Telerik team
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