When you add a new drop-down (or multi-select) field in the member's profile in 6.1, and you do this via a "predefined values" table you have defined, this table does not exist in the mysql database for the application - it is buried somewhere in your PHP code. This means we can't really control our data from other applications, and is another way we have become trapped by this long development cycle. Will this architecture be more friendly in D7?

Rob

p.s. This may be an arcane see more issue, but I have also tried to use some of Dolphin's tables as dropdowns in the profile fields - specifically the "countries" table - it causes problems but can be made to work by repeatedly letting it fail in the fields builder. I have this pretty will documented but it would be nice if this was fixed in D7 - and if we are given better control over our databases.