Django ModelForm Custom Autofill Confirmation for M2M, Instead of Ugly Multi-Select

Question

Given the following models (shortened for understanding):

class Venue(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(unique=True)

class Band(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(unique=True)

class Event(models.Model):    
    name = models.CharField(max_length=50, unique=True)       
    bands = models.ManyToManyField(Band) 
    venue = models.ForeignKey(Venue)
    start = models.DateField()
    end = models.DateField()

The admin area works great for what I'm doing, but I would like to open the site a bit so that some users can add new events. For public parts, I have several “administrative” fields on these models that I don’t want to see the public (which is easy enough to fix).

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name=FooBar2009&bands=1&bands=3&bands=4&venue=7&start=...

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jQuery("#id_tags").autocomplete('/tagging_utils/autocomplete/tasks/task/', {
    max: 10,
    highlight: false,
    multiple: true,
    multipleSeparator: " ",
    scroll: true,
    scrollHeight: 300,
    matchContains: true,
    autoFill: true,
}); 

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http://skyl.org/tagging_utils/autocomplete/tasks/task/?q=a&limit=10×tamp=1259652876009

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http://github.com/skyl/skyl.org/blob/master/apps/tagging_utils/views.py

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def clean_bands(self):
    return Band.objects.filter( name__in = self.cleaned_data['bands'].split(' ') )

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