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Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

For your information, creating a custom field creates an extra column in the profile field table. Therefore, the result is the same except the field name is not static.

indeed, however i'm sure there are a million ways in which this could've been done. i simply done what i felt was the most graceful way of achieving the task. feel free to release your own version though, we compare methods over a cup of tea at which point we'll both realise sharing less than ten lines worth of code really doesn't require scrutinisation of successful methods to achieve simple tasks. if users get confused over adding profile fields they really shouldn't be here in the first place.