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In Step #4 above the repeating element should have been section, not sections.  Also, to clarify, in Step #5 the elements you would add/remove/update would be section elements (which I guess was probably obvious :-).

Actually, you can populate a drop-down list via code without using a dreaded preserve code block. Say, for example you want a list of sections in your form that will be populated programatically.  You can achieve this by doing the following: 1) Create an XML (sections.xml) file that contains two identical, empty nodes within the root node. ...

Martin, I have found that a good solution to this problem is to create a Filter Web Part.  I recently created one that returns the NT username of the current user.  MOSS actually provides this out of the box, but WSS does not.  Once the the web part is installed, you can add it to a page and then connect it to other web parts on ...