Passing Shopp fields to Gravity Forms

This is more of a 'I don't know PHP that well' issue than a Gravity forms issue, but I've seen others ask this once or twice on the forums at both locations and never saw a definitive answer.

I have followed the instructions on setting up the hooks in http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/right-parameter-names-to-pre-populate-the-names-fields#post-14044, instead of getting the first and last names in the fields, it's displaying the fields at the load point of the form, and then putting '1' in each field.

The functions.php hooks: http://www.pastie.org/2647238

Results: http://grab.by/b0Re

Just based on the results I would think it is some simple issue with the create_function echoing the results on execute instead of storing it in the variable, but I just can't see it...

I've spent some time splunking around the Shopp code and have come to the same conclusion.

The shopp() function would normally create a text field with the variable called pre-populating it, by adding the 'mode-value' argument it echos the variable as plaintext instead of an input field.

I've been working on some more coding and ways to obtain the info I want - some of it may be useful to other Shopp / Gravity users.

1) Returns login status of Shopp accounts, or WB / Integrated accounts as shopp_login
http://www.pastie.org/2673207

2) Returns the first name of the currently logged in Shopp account holder as shopp_fname
http://www.pastie.org/2673202

Code 2 pulls it's info from the current Shopp session, but returns empty fields if the user is not logged in. I am working on code to check login status, pull the customer info from the Shopping data file if they are logged and the WP file if not, and eventually be able to pull transaction numbers for purchases to pre-populate RMA or complaint & review forms.