Elegant solution for swatch drop down list with dozens of swatches?

[koala]

I'm trying to come up with an elegant way to deal with products with many, many swatches. For example, we have towels which come in 60 colours, and bed frames which come in 40 colours.

This product on our dev site has 7 of the 40 paint finishes loaded. I would suspect that having all 40 on there is going to look really strange:

http://dev.tmasc.ca/wesley-allen-iro...-iron-bed.html

Any thoughts on how best to accomplish this? Our live MMUI site has a hacked together solution where you just pick the colour name from a standard drop down and then it loads the associated swatch in a static location on the page. I could go back to this, but I'd rather try to use a built-in Miva feature than have to manually code this stuff.

Edit - as an aside - I also notice the Swatch - Drop Down List attribute option breaks the dynamic pricing feature. The "Price as Selected" above the attributes remains as $0.00 regardless of selection...

[koala]

One other small bug with the swatch drop down in the levels theme is that the border box around the selected swatch does not change - stays on the first swatch regardless of which one is clicked or tapped. At least for me, it behaves this way.