Re-populating select from db and validate it?

[eluser]felyx[/eluser]
When someone loads the editing page for the first time I want to populate the form with data from the database. But at the select menu its a bit hard to do that, at the set_value function you can just set the default value parameter but you don't have that at the set_select() function, you can only tell the function if an option is the default or not.

About the validation class, as you can see I am using the set_select() function which is mentioned in the validation class reference, that's what I meant.