Fair enough. But when the discussion is about something like CCK (which is so widely implemented that it's been incorporated into D7 core), I think that it at least merits discussion, and/or referencing in the tutorials. I can't imagine any person who is writing a module for Drupal would not want this feature.

Plus, there should be SOME documentation on the 'net about how to implement this. As far as I can tell, it's not. It's so much "not," that one person on here actually wrote to say that what I wanted was impossible - and this is a developer list.

-Karl.