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This was a major hang up on my recent project. I thought I would share in hopes of saving someone else sometime. The explanation for the code being this tedious has to do with CCK's database structure. Each field is given its own table, so to avoid costly queries CCK has a database cache. Here is the code. I had to read through several other posts to find this. I'll try to link to those when I get time.