On Apr 18, 2009, at 7:03 AM, Eric Schaefer wrote: > (as in "Drupal has save and portable built-in functions for it"). ;-) Interested parties should see this issue about fixing all this in D7 and beyond: "DX: Use hook_variable_info to declare variables and defaults" http://drupal.org/node/145164 Enjoy, -Derek (dww)