Thanks, rev. This is what I figured out in between posting and your response. I'm glad I diagnosed it properly and worked around it in the same manner (so I don't think I did a kludgy job).
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Jeff
japhy Pinyan,
P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.:
Perl,
regex,
and
perl
hacker
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