Here's a thought:

Post your proposed solution and let us have a try at it. I'm positive that there's a number of optimizations you haven't seen, cause you're the original author. (This applies to everyone, including tilly, tye, and merlyn.)

(Only Erudil doesn't need this kind of help ... he needs a completely different form of help. *grins*)

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