What the?? Part II

Hmm. . . I thought Blogger ate my post. Heck, it did eat my post. Then I rewrote it, and suddenly both posts appear. Okay, so I'm deleting the first one and editing the best bits into the second one. If you saw them both and were somehow instantly attached to the first version and can't live without it, I've still got it saved and can email it to you.