Strategies for populating drop downs with external data

Hi,
I have a couple nice forms that call various array scripts that populate drop down boxes based on a selection. Everytime I need to update pricing, models, etc... I have to go in and manually edit the array. I am using just designer - we do not have the server version.
Is there a better way to do this ranther than edit the array and keep saving version? I have seen some expamples using anXML file to the form. This looks like a solution but I am not sure how to do it if this.
It would be nice to have seperate database that contained my widgets external, update it and then make the connection.
Any help would be apprecated!

This is a similar thread....
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5538822#5538822
Maybe this is a taboo subject as it something adobe wants you to buy the server version for... I see this get asked many times but there never seems to be a direct answer.
In an effort to make my question more clear - If i have users out there with a form, and I want to update the form with a nightly updated file, that may contain pricing for example, how can one do this?
So the core form stays the same, but dropdowns can be populated with external data.
Thanks in advnace for any all help.

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you can try this ,
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> Is there any tutorials or information to do a self
populating drop down
> list in CF?
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> I assume you would have the form post back to its self
using a IsDefined
> for each drop down step. Drop Down 1 (DD1) is selected
and that posts back
> to the same page and causes the DD2 to run a SQL query
based on DD1's
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selected.
>
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>
> Thanks
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