I have no idea how to handle this in ColdFusion 9, I have a form being submitted (POST) with element checkboxes, called items[].
When I do a
I can highly recommend Brian Kotek's "Form Utils" for cases such as this: http://www.briankotek.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/9/4/Implicit-Creation-of-Arrays-and-Structures-from-Form-Fields
I use this in every app I build, because working with arrays and structs on the form submission side is much more preferable to working with lists, imo.