Actually, Jim posted in while I was posting the close message, and I removed them, apparently not quickly enough, though. No nefarious purpose to it, I just didn't want the whole mess to kick off again. Now, there's really been enough drama for a few days, so let's just let this die so I can spend some time addressing the points brought up in the original thread rather than trying to deal with more. I'd really appreciate it.
Again, thanks for the input, folk, I'm going to close this one as well.
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