>But the moral of the story: Sometimes, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Good story, and one that most of us have some sort of analogy with.

We have to have a few editable columns in some grids in a large app, and there was so much squabbling over what color to use for the non-editable columns, I finally just built in a color-picker to let each user choose, anything but white is allowed, basically.