Stroke weight

I am new to Illustrator CS4 (win XP)
When I draw/select a line I see the stroke weight im MM
however when I click in the weght box to change the line thickness they are all in points.
I have set the defaults to be mm in edit preferences, yet I cannot see that in the weight window.
How do I see mm in the weight window of stroke please?
Thanks

Thanks fir your reply Wade,
I was hoping that there was some way to display mm in the drop down menu,
but obviously there is not.
Do you know if there is a relationship between points and mm?
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Stroke weight
If you go to the preferences there is a settig for units and display
performance and you set the weight to mm there.
In the stroke weight field you manually input the weight measurement in
order t see mm. If you use the drop down that remains for some
mysterious reason in pts and there is nothing you can do about it that I
know of.

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