Create Account State as a Dropdown

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I have looked around and I see a number of add-ons to make the State (with a country of United States) a dropdown.  However, I have not gone this path because it appears to me that the code is already in oscommerce 2.3 that I am using.  

 

I am looking in the create_account.php file and there is a series of if and else that should make it a dropdown however I am ending up at the else which is to draw an input field. 

    if ($process == true) {
      if ($entry_state_has_zones == true) {
        $zones_array = array();
        $zones_query = tep_db_query("select zone_name from " . TABLE_ZONES . " where zone_country_id = '" . (int)$country . "' order by zone_name");
        while ($zones_values = tep_db_fetch_array($zones_query)) {
          $zones_array[] = array('id' => $zones_values['zone_name'], 'text' => $zones_values['zone_name']);
        }
        echo tep_draw_pull_down_menu('state', $zones_array);
      } else {
        echo tep_draw_input_field('state');
      }
    } else {
      echo tep_draw_input_field('state');
    }

I have been tracing my way through this file trying to figure out what is occurring.  From what I can tell I have two problems.  The first problem is that $process != true and so it skips most of this and goes to the else at the bottom.  However, for testing purposes I changed the if statement to be if ($process == true || $process == false) and it gets past this line and then I find that the next if statement fails.  So $entry_state_has_zones != true.  If I go about the same process and force this to true I then end up with the dropdown that I am selecting.

 

Can anyone help me out with what might make $process = false and $entry_state_has_zones = false?   The only country that is available for my website is United States which is ID 223 and $country always appears to be set to 223.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.