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you will need to do this via hooks and customized templates

1. expose a radio button asking for which is primary: home/work. customize the template to show this radio button

2. implement the postProcess hook to mark that location as is_primary for that contact

lobo

Outr of Lobos 2 above, here is a part of a solution:
<?php 
function customModule_civicrm_postProcess($formName, &$form ){
  if ( is_a( $form, 'CRM_Profile_Form_Edit' ) ) {
     $gid = $form->getVar( '_gid' );
     $cid = $form->getVar( '_id');        
     switch ($gid){
       case '32':      // 32 is the Profile ID
         customModule_civicrm_contact_primary_address($cid , 4);  // 4 = 'Address type ID' that you want to make the primary address when this profile form is submitted

       break;
     }
  }
} ?>


And here is the function that updates $cid 's primary address to $address_type_id :

<?php

function customModule_civicrm_contact_primary_address($cid , $address_type_id){
  civicrm_initialize(true);
  include_once('api/api.php');
  $params = array( 'version' => 3, 
    'contact_id' => $cid 
    );
  $existing = civicrm_api('Address','get',$params);

  foreach ( $existing['values'] as $location ){
    if ($location['location_type_id'] == $address_type_id){
      foreach ($existing['values'] as $address_id => $address){
        $is_primary = ($address['location_type_id'] == $address_type_id) ? 1 : 0;

        $results = civicrm_api('Address','update', array ('version' => 3, 'id'=>$address_id, 'is_primary' => $is_primary));
        $message = ($results['error'] == 0)? "Address ID: ".$address_id. " updated successfully" : "Error updating address: ".$results['error_message'];
        watchdog('customModule', $message, NULL, WATCHDOG_WARNING);
      }
    }
  }
}
?>
This takes care to change the existing primary address type to be not primary, and set the newest address to be the primary one.

There is an extra foreach (location ... ) loop in there, in case this gets called to set an address_type_id to be the primary one that isn't set for that contact. That would be bad, it would unset the existing primary address without setting a new one.

In our usage, we just needed to set a contacts primary address to be such and such after they submitted it via a profile form. It's the only address shown on that profile form.

Adding options to the Profile form would be one more step, and this would be done. If I do that, I will post it back here.