Actually, I found those modules last night. *Very* nice, high level interface to widgets. I think it's going to let me accomplish what I need. I havn't had a chance to pick at the module yet but it should contain all I really need to know about Curses at this point.

One question (since you're familure):
Is there a way to use the bind method to capture arrow keys? That would allow a context box for list_box's that could display based on the selected field. I tried KEY_UP, etc. but it behaved as I feared it would (K, E, Y, _, U, P where assigned as the bound keys).
If I added the regex when adding the widget to the forms, it didn't seem to pass the reference to the object state as Mod_Own does.