[paul@dimoda.com.au]

Thanks for the comments

The shipping calculator is from BSC Engineering - not that expensive and worth its weight in gold. (Their support is quite good and all of their mods are great)

It uses your shipping system so whatever you have set in there (Real Time UPS or your own rates / zones and methods).

It also uses your default location (general settings) until you enter your own postcode - hence the results you experienced. If you do not want that to happen leave the default location blank in the general settings.

As it is using the shipping system, yes the results are the same as you go through the checkout. (Saves people having to go through checkout or register just to get a shipping rate)

There seom good threads in the forums on the shipping rate calculator if you hunt around - otherwise contact BSC

rgds