It almost seems... *too* flexible. :) My whole jive is that I don't want to go through the trouble of creating these Singleton classes, which it seems like I'd have to do with Object::Realize::Later anyways. Thanks for the tip, though; with my extremely inept searching abilities, I don't think I would have found Object::Realize::Later on my own.

Update: Another thought: I might be able to use Object::Realize::Later to create only a small single class that handles the automatic initialization... although that also might be more trouble than its worth...