Thanks for the great feedback all, I'll review them this morning.

The purpose of this task is to extract the messages between my girlfriend and I for immigration purposes... I need to show how long we were in communication to prove we have a real relationship prior to her visiting me in Canada for the first time (she's from TX). This, along with phone bills, both of our passport stamps/travel docs/itineraries of our travel back and forth will suit the requirement I believe.

I don't know if this'll be useful to me or anyone else in the future, but I've decided to take a bit of extra time to build it into a module in case there is a need in the future for it.

-stevieb