Having FAPI I'd like to avoid to use $_GET directly.
I've a form that display the result of a search. The technique is similar to: http://jeff.viapositiva.net/drupal/dynamic-forms or http://www.lullabot.com/articles/drupal_5_making_forms_that_display_their_ow...
the trick is that $form_values are still available... but 1) it seems I can't use get method 2) not being able to use get method, if the result of the form contains a tablesorted table, once you sort the table clicking on a column despite the fact the values are all in the url... $form_values is empty.
Of course I could use $_GET array in place of the $form_values array... but this miss the use of FAPI (validation, token...). Is there a neater approach?
Did some of these use case get better in D6?