>>Those are the easy parts.
>Ah, but the hard parts cost so much more <g>...

LOL!

>Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of passing a parameter of states selected and filtering the States view accordingly. (just not a big fan of adding extra, "phantom" fields to views)

Yeah, but I find the phantom fields logically easier than trying to compile/decompile that parameter and filter with it.

>http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/occams_razor.html

I cut myself with that razor all the time. ;)

Chris.