Calculate Default Value

All,

I have an interesting problem (which ESRI has mostly solved). In essence, I have a large database where there are a number of attributes where the default value was not populated (they are all Null values).

My users would like to replace all the Null values with the default values (sometimes there is an actual value in the field). Has anyone determined how best to do this? ArcPy does not appear to have a way to return the default value, so I cannot easily iterate through the feature class.

ESRI has provided a tool to do this

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/...00000008000000

But it requires the Defense Mapping extension and toolset. Which seems rather silly, this would be a great common tool for ArcGIS

Thanks