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I am using CiviCRM 3.0 in a Drupal 6.15 site.

I am building a signup form and profile for a client. What I would like to do is build a profile form that not only captures individual contact information for each anonymous user that signs up and becomes and authenticate user, but I would like to computer their employers information that populates into an organization record.

Example:
Currently, I capture each individual's primary information using the Drupal user sign up page.
I want additional fields so when they Choose "Employee of", they can then enter in the address, phone number, etc of their employer. Additionally, to avoid duplicate records, I'd like the "Employee of" field to be search-able so they can find a pre-existing employee record and use that pre-exiting information, rather than creating multiple duplicate records.

I would be very humbly appreciative of any help!

Is there a way to simply expose the organizational address in a profile, If I choose not to pursure creating that "search feature"? It seems like, with all the other fields, it should be fairly simple, considering organizational address information is readily built in.

I found a section in the online documentation that goes into filling out the information, but nothing on connecting it to a profile:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Create+New+Organization+Contact

Your help is very, very much appreciated!