[ic] change state to a select in admin/entry

[Jeannie Stevenson]

good day listies

I have a change that is needed to admin/entry. I need to have the state be a
dropdown
select like include/checkout/shipping_address instead of the input that it
is now.
I've tried to copy the code from the ...shipping_address file <TD>
    [loop search="
   fi=state.txt
   sf=country
   se=[default country US]
   rf=state,name,country
   un=yes
   tf=sorder,name
   ml=100
    "
    option=state]
    [on-match]<SELECT onChange="check_avail(this.form)" NAME=state><option
value="">--[L]select
state[/L]--
    [/on-match]
    [list]
    [loop-change 1][condition][loop-param country][/condition]
    <OPTGROUP LABEL="[data table=country col=name key='[loop-param
country]']">
    [/loop-change 1]
    <OPTION VALUE="[loop-code]">[loop-pos 1]
    [/list]
    [on-match]</SELECT>[/on-match]
    [no-match]<INPUT NAME=state VALUE="[value state]" SIZE=20>[/no-match]
    [/loop]
  </td>

but when I view it, it comes up with 56 select boxes with no states to
select in
them. Also all the inputs have the default="code" entered into the boxes

Can someone please point me into the direction to help me with this problem
as I've
been working on a solution for 3 days now :-(

Thankyou

ScottA