HOWTO:create join form field with 'Not Specified' - part 2

Has this Trac/Upgrade/Enhancement been implemented? I went to the Trac, and saw

"Read chosen default value (from field blocks) or "Inactive", for select boxes"

This is something I need as well. Having a default Value of the first item in a list box on the search page is frustrating. Changing the default value for Country works in Search, but it seems that other Default Value's are ignored and the first item in the list is the default. I tried to create separate block for joining and for searching that refer to the same predefined value list, in an attempt to have the search box populate with the second list item, however it doesn't work.

So the Trac for this has not been updated in 2 years?

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/ticket/2179

Why does "Country" work and not other drop lists?

This doesn't work anymore???? Well DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!! I been trying to get this working in ages, I found various tutorials all saying same thing and it just didn't work.