> FYI, to add some metrics here, I have a list of cities-in-states  
> that I
> sourced from somewhere (US Census site, probably), and that list has
> 55,324 entries.

I got my data from here.  http://www.zip-codes.com/zip-code-database.asp
The standard version has 29,778 non duplicate cities.


> So loading this into a select box, even dynamically,
> seems problematic.  As the previous poster suggested, use AJAX-based
> autocomplete to keep the list of the server side instead.

+1.

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