Jmarcv,

Thanks for the detailed reply. I have read it about 10 times already. I think I understand what you are getting at, so I'm going to try to implement it. I like the simple part.

What do you think about the state and university listing? I have the university select box set to invisible during onload, then it appears on selecting the state. Do you think there may be a better way, from a visual / usability perspective?

I develop in Firefox with the Firebug plugin. It really doesnt get much better.
I use it too, it has helped me debug this entire thing, but sometimes I can't really "read" or yet understand what the debug messages are really telling me. Javascript is entirely silent about its errors. Ie just does nothing. I would like to learn more about the DOM tab and inspecting the DOM to use the debugging feature more effectively.

BTW, thanks for the new conventions. I need to get a good book on Javascript.

I'll keep you posted and return back with what you suggest once I implement it. Thanks again for the help,