I thought I expressed this clearly enough > My feeling is that > 1) the list issue is to be addressed in skin engine > 2) default/hardcoded lists should use skin engine and the engine > should 'autoexpand/pad' lists to be usable as needed
So to recap, I think skin engine should have the ability to pad/expand lists (something like your patch(es) do but coded in different place) AND default/hardcoded lists should exploit this ability. Marcin Bukat