Thanks for posting the diffs. I calculated them, but just ended up rubbing my eyes, cursing, and getting another cup of coffee instead of doing anything useful with the info.

RE: using a wrapper module, this code was written and in production with 5.00503 for a while, and back then I was using FileHandle to stash FH's as object members. It's been low in my refactoring list, up until this particular deployment.