You're right...I started looking into form.inc last night.
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 17:58 -0500, Earl Dunovant wrote:
> I suppose I could toss a copy of $form_values into a global variable
> but that's something I actively try to avoid, to make debugging
> easier.
I think form_values is already in the global scope. I've used global
$form_values when I needed it...