Generate A Weighted Random Number

I'm trying to devise a (good) way to choose a random number from a range of possible numbers where each number in the range is given a weight. To put it simply: given the range of numbers (0,1,2) choose a number where 0 has an 80% probability of being selected, 1 has a 10% chance and 2 has a 10% chance.

It's been about 8 years since my college stats class, so you can imagine the proper formula for this escapes me at the moment.

Here's the 'cheap and dirty' method that I came up with. This solution uses ColdFusion. Yours may use whatever language you'd like. I'm a programmer, I think I can handle porting it. Ultimately my solution needs to be in Groovy - I wrote this one in ColdFusion because it's easy to quickly write/test in CF.

public function weightedRandom( Struct options ) {

    var tempArr = [];

    for( var o in arguments.options )
    {
        var weight = arguments.options[ o ] * 10;
        for ( var i = 1; i<= weight; i++ )
        {
            arrayAppend( tempArr, o );
        }
    }
    return tempArr[ randRange( 1, arrayLen( tempArr ) ) ];
}

// test it
opts = { 0=.8, 1=.1, 2=.1  };

for( x = 1; x<=10; x++ )
{
    writeDump( weightedRandom( opts ) );    
}

I'm looking for better solutions, please suggest improvements or alternatives.