option selected in a <select> form

[__greg]

Hello,
I'm having a little problem with grabbing data from a MySQL database, and formatting the results in a <select> form.

I'm selecting a list of the 50 states from my database, I'd like to have the option automatically selected depending on which state the user is in.

Here's what I'm using now:

$states = "select abbr,full from eteam_states order by full";
							$states_res = mysql_query($states) or die(showerror());

						while ($wow = mysql_fetch_array($states_res)) {
							$abbr = $wow['abbr'];
							$full = $wow['full'];

							// displays country twice in select form FIX THIS						
							if ($abbr == $state) {
								echo "<option selected value='$abbr'>$full</option>";
							}

							echo "<option value='$abbr'>$full</option>";
						}

... it works okay, but it will produce the selected state TWICE

Any ideas how I can clean that up, and have every state only display once, including the selected one?

Thanks

[Pig]

if ($abbr == $state) {
echo "<option selected value='$abbr'>$full</option>";
} else {
echo "<option value='$abbr'>$full</option>";
}