Validation, List and Named Ranges

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I've posted these questions but I've heard no response, maybe my Topic name was terrible, or noone could understand a word I wrote or maybe I'm blacklisted. I'm still hopeful someone might help me out, tho.

So here's my spreadsheet:
Generator BtS.xls
IJKLM
2ParanormalStudiesPhysicalSkillsRogueSkillsScienceSkillsTechnicalSkills
3AstrologyHandtoHand:UntrainedCardsharpAnthropologyAppraiseAntiques
4Lore:Aliens&UFOlogyHandtoHand:BasicComputerHackingArchaeologyArtificialIntelligence
5Lore:AmericanIndiansHandtoHand:ExpertConcealmentArtificialIntelligenceBreedDogs
6Lore:Cattle&AnimalsHandtoHand:MartialArtsFindContrabandAstronomy&NavigationBusiness&Finance
7Lore:Cults&SectsHandtoHand:AssassinGambling(Standard)AstrophysicsComputerOperation
8Lore:Demons&MonstersHandtoHand:CommandoGambling(DirtyTricks)BiologyComputerProgramming
9Lore:Entities&GhostsAcrobaticsIDUndercoverAgentBotonyExcavation
10Lore:Faeries&CreaturesofMagicAerobicAthleticsImitateVoice&SoundsChemistryFirefighting
11Lore:Geomancy&LeyLinesAthletics(General)PalmingChemistry:AnalyticalGemology
12Lore:MagicBodyBuilding&WeightLiftingPickLocksorPickPocketsChemistry:PharmaceuticalGeneralRepair&Maintenance
13Lore:MagicArcaneBoxingProwlGeneticsHistory
14Lore:MythologyClimbRoadwiseMathematics:BasicJury-Rig
15Lore:Paranormal&PsionicsFencingSafe-CrackingMathematics:AdvancedLaw(General)
16Lore:ReligionForcedMarchSeductionParapsychologyLeatherWorking
17Lore:SuperstitionsGymnasticsStreetwisePsychologyMasonry
18Streetwise:WeirdJugglingTailingZoologyMeditation
19KickBoxingMining
20OutdoorsmanshipNavigation
21PhysicalLabourPhilosophy
22ProwlPhotography
23RunningRogueSkillsProspecting
24SwimRecycling
25SCUBAResearch
26WrestlingRopeWorks
27Salvage
28TechnicalWriting
29Ventriloquism
30Whittling&Sculpting
data


Just to clarify, the words "Rogue Skills" in cell k23 is actually a selection from a Validation List which includes all those Bold titles (Paranormal Studies, Physical Skills on over to Transportation Skills). And also, while this EXAMPLE is all taking place on the worksheet "data!", I actually want these Validation Lists and Column Lists to appear on the worksheet "skills!"

I would like to know:

1) How can I make a choice from my Validation List ("Rogue Skills") and ALL the skills underneath (from "Cardsharp" down to "Tailing") appear in cells L23 down to L38?
2) How can I make Excel randomly choose "Pick Locks" or "Pick Pockets"?
3) How can the next Validation List box wisely appear immediately under and to the left (K39 or K40 if I want some whitespace) of all those skills so that I can repeat what I did for question 1 over and over again?
4) If my next Validation List choice is Physical Skills, there will be an unwanted duplication of the skill "Prowl". How can I weed out duplicates?
5) And rather than having all those "Hand to Hand:" skills in one cell (like "Pick Locks" and "Pick Pockets" were necessarily arranged) to choose between, how can I make Excel choose one "Hand to Hand:" skill randomly? So that this skill list will extend from cells L38 down to L56 (assuming no whitespace, the skill "Prowl" was omitted and one "Hand to Hand:" was randomly chosen).

Answers to these questions will keep me going for weeks and weeks and weeks..... because I have buckets of data that need to follow the same principle except sometimes my choice won't be from a Validation List, but a Checkbox or Optionbox or simply a Named Range typed into a cell.
Thanks in advance!!
 

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Apologies and Thank you

I do extend my apologies for abusing the board by starting a new thread on the same topic but the first Topic name was LOUSY and the post was VERY unclear, so help was scarce. I felt that a New Topic with a much better Topic name (and a sample using HTML Maker) would improve my chances for assistance. Thank you, Von Pookie for linking my two posts, you're absolutely right in that they are identical.
 
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