dropdown values getting lost in validation

it seems my dropdown collections on my bean are not getting repopulated when i use the validator interceptor. What is the best practice for repopulating dropdowns? Where should this logic be placed?

Passing data to Global Error Page

I need to pass data to my global error page I am attempting to setup a global error action instead of a jsp page as i want to post a message stored in my db on the error page. The action will grab data from the db and forward to jsp I am trying: errorHandlerAction