[wp-hackers] Dashboard plugin/widget development - create new post

[James Nachlin]

Hi List,

I thought this would be easy at first.  Maybe it is.

I am developing a dashboard widget that creates a post.  Trying to 
emulate what QuickPress does, only the title is from a select box, 
instead of text input.

Here is the form.  It points at wp-admin/post.php.  I get redirected to 
edit.php, but no post shows up.  No error message
ether.


<?php
    function draw_form($instance) {
        global $qotd_user_id, $qotd_base_url, $local_url;

        $json = $this->get_questions($qotd_user_id);
        ?>
            <form id="answerform" name="answerform" action="<?php echo 
esc_url( admin_url( 'post.php' ) ); ?>" method="post">
                <h4 id="content-label"><label 
for="content">Question</label></h4>
                <select>
        <?php
        foreach($json as &$q) {
            ?>
                    <option value="<?php echo $q{'pk'} ?>"><?php echo
$q{'fields'}{'text'} ?></option>
            <?php
        }
        ?>
                </select>
                <h4 id="content-label"><label for="content">Answer</
label></h4>
                    <div class="textarea-wrap">
                            <textarea name="content" id="content" 
class="mceEditor"
rows="3" cols="15" tabindex="2"></textarea>
                    </div>
                        <p class="submit">
                                <input type="hidden" 
name="conversation_post_ID" value="0" /
 >
                                <input type="hidden" id="_wpnonce" 
name="_wpnonce" value="<?
php echo wp_create_nonce( "conversate_$qotd_user_id" ) ?>" />
                                <input type="submit" name="save" 
id="save-post"
class="button" tabindex="4" value="Save Draft" />
                    <input type="reset" value="Reset" class="button" /
 >
                                <input type="submit" name="publish" 
id="publish"
accesskey="p" tabindex="5"
                                    class="button-primary" 
value="Publish" />
                                                        <br class="clear" />
                        </p>
            </form>

        <?php
    }
?>

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions!

-JIM

P.S.
Apologies if this question already posted.  I seem to be having posting 
issues.