Yeah, your points are well taken. I'm actually planning web-based admin for this thing (see some of my other posts), so part of the plugin's functionality will be "administer the plugin". As for removing plugins easily... good point. I already have a nifty, easy-to-extend config architecture using FreezeThaw.pm and a bunch of $SETTINGS hashes, so I could include a $DISABLED_PLUGINS hash:

$DISABLED_PLUGINS = {
   nogood.pm => 1,
   notneeded.pm => 1,
   ...
}
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Thanks for the point.
dave