ERROR when adding Other State/province

[Islandrose]

I noticed on our website when I input a State on the (other state/province) and save it, when i get to the page Shipping/Payment Selection theres no (other state/province) that i just typed. and when you back to the Customer Edit page the (other state/province) is empty which means its not being save by our website. what do you think is the error here.

[AHerb]

Any URLs to have a look at?

This is how the dropdown should look
                        <mvt:item name="states" param="ShipStateSelect" />

This is how the other state should look
                        <input type="text" name="ShipState" id="ShipState" value="&mvte:global:ShipState;" />