cyberslingers

Oops, had to stick with just enabling the country field, otherwise the shipping costs don't update correctly.

What worked for me (for customers that are not signed in) was to enable the 'country' field, too, alongside the state and zip fields. However, I didn't really want that field, since I don't ship internationally yet. So, I set it manually by adding: define('STORE_COUNTRY','223'); to catalog/includes/languages/english/modules/shipping_estimator.php and then disabled the country option again in the admin. Probably a crude workaround, but it seems to work so far. Note: I am using Steve Fatula's Fedex_Direct_2.04-CVS as my shipping module.

Not sure if you gat an answer to this yet, but I process FedEx all day for customers and International Economy generally does cost more than International Priority. Odd, but true.