Well, you had specifically ruled out the correct answer in your question. I think the XY problem still applies. But I don't think you can handle it better than you did. There were some grumpy people around and that's part of what the IRC is about. It took less than a screen to get everything sorted out and in my mind it went pretty smoothly for being on the IRCs. I really didn't think you did anything wrong, aside from confusing us initially.