"Thanks to everyone who responded to this thread. You folks have been extremely helpful to me and I worry about trying your patience."

Don't worry about that. Take a look at Tutorials/Understanding and Using PerlMonks/PerlMonks for the Absolute Beginner and How do I post a question effectively?. Honestly, it's better just to leave nodes as they are or mark them as updated in some way, for example I do:

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