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I am consulting for a particular association, and we are strongly leaning towards the use of CiviCRM for membership CRUD, display to the public, etc (version 2.0 within Drupal 5.7). There are two major problems that need to be solved before we can commit to the CiviCRM system:

1. The association currently charges dues to its members once a year, corresponding to its fiscal year. We would like to have the possbility of using CiviContribute to take the membership dues online. However, the membership should not be allowed to choose a different membership type on that form. Whatever membership they had in 2007 is what they should be charged for in 2008. How do we accomplish this?

2. The association has a both "international" and "regional" membership dues. The regional dues vary by region and by international membership type (there are currently about 100 membership types). A limited, hypothetical table of their current regional dues structure is given below:

	Regions
	International Dues	Central (CE)	East (EA)	WorldWide (WW)
Certified	250	90	100	50
Certified/Retired	150	45	60	40
Student	100	20	25	25

Unfortunately, I am unable to figure out how to accomplish charging both "international" and "regional" dues in one "Membership Dues" payment page transaction (without resorting to editing the underlying php coding, of course). Is there a particular technique using built in custom data types in to CiviCRM that would allow this? Could some sort of module or extension be built for it that would still allow proper version updates in the future? Or is the only "solution" to force all regions to charge the same amount of dues for each membership type, and just lump it in with the international dues? 

Any thoughts, ideas, solutions, pointers to wikis or other threads with similar topics, etc you all can provide for this would be very helpful indeed.

Thanks

2. Not sure, but this might help:  I have multiple membership types and prices.  I made a simple page with links to separate sign-up pages.  Each sign-up page is a Contribution page.  You can even have different profiles for each for regional questions.