Jim, Maybe try to get the value of "other" with the innerHTML or innerText attribute?  Or try the HTML attribute from the drop-down?

You can find some more detailed information on Data Elements here:  http://microsite.omniture.com/t2/help/en_US/dtm/#Data_ElementsYou can also monitor this page as we continue to update documentation:  http://microsite.omniture.com/t2/help/en_US/dtm/#Documentation_Updates

Thanks for the feedback!  We are actively working on adding Data Elements documentation, since it is a very powerful feature and can make your implementations much more efficient.  This content will appear soon in the Help documents and I will give you an update here when it is available.  In the me...

You can use the %var% syntax to include Javascript variables.  First setup a Data Element in DTM.  Then you can insert the name of your Data Element between percent signs in a rule or your Analytics setup and DTM will dynamically populate the value.  You have several ways to define a Data Element, o...

Within the Rules or Global Variables, can you set eVars etc. only to a string or can you set it to a JS variable or something?