No. I'm wanting to optimize the application so that subs that only print text to the screen don't take half the standard execution time to run. Are you sure you read the entire thread?

I don't particularly need it to be more maintainable, especially those bits. Then again, I don't particularly need it to run faster either. If the installer has to wait a half minute to check the version number of an already installed copy, I'm not going to sweat it, but if it makes sense for it to not have to, great.