I'd love to hear about other people's experiences with this process so if roseambr wants to share, I'm willing to discuss. I'm lucky that I have people to discuss this sort of stuff with but my feeling is, "you can never have too many." :D

So I do believe it's worth the trouble to strip this puppy down and re-engineer it from the gold nugget outward, and anything you care to throw into the mix will be welcome!

I do, too! First thing I stripped - the overt Christianity. :)