I was working with this yesterday and the only reliable solution I could find was to manipulate the HTML using perl or in my case php. You just have to write a script that will build the HTML based upon your list and then have it stick in the SELECTED option when it comes to the desired one. I tried manipulating the DOM to do this also so that I could reselect on the fly, but this just wasn't worth the effort. I dare say it could be done.