Actually, I lied, that's not working. I'm freezing and thawing this stuff separately (ie, not OO). Therefore, freeze() or thaw() never gets called in an OO fashion, and inheritance doesn't apply. STORABLE_freeze() and STORABLE_thaw() methods are supposed to allow you to "hook" into the Storable processing, but once in, you can't back out and use Storable's default (C-based) serialization routines.

It appears