Person Column in Lists

posted this over in general QA and thought it might go here better:

Using MOSS and the BDC, we have the capability to add Business Data as columns in a list. How would I go about creating a "People" type in my BDC that pulls the data from the user profiles in MOSS?

What I would like to do is have a drop down or search screen for selecting a person from the profile store instead of keying the information into a contact list and then having the information be out of date , etc... It would be much easier to just allow them to select a person and pull the data from there. They would also get the "Presense" pawn next the persons name etc.. which would be very useful.

Does this sound possible ? Has anyone done this ?

[765 byte] By [SharePointing] at [2008-2-7]