>guarenteed that the vast majority of the people, faced with this daunting stack of reading, would bitch about the docs giving them hernias!
Sad but true.

>it's the developer's responsibility to know enough about the tools they work with -by choice - to deal with them.
yes, also true

>I can sympathize with ignorance, and generally try to help as I can to correct that.
You mean ignorance is curable? Wow, there IS hope then. :)

>If you plan ahead and have a picture hook and a hammer, and there's a stud in the wall to drive it into, this is a good solution.
Smearing contact cement all over the back of the picture and pressing it onto the wallpaper also works. It's reliably secure, but it's not very scalable in the event you'd like to update the picture. *g*