>Anyway, thanks for an interesting discussion. I hope everyone realizes that part of my reason for "arguing" with you, is for the benefit of the lurkers here. I'm hoping that people can get an idea of the pros and cons of the various strategies in order to come up with their own ideas of how to address these kinds of architecture issues.
Right <g>... I'm not knocking anything neither are you, we're just describing what we're doing.
At this point this sort of thing helps me review what I've done and also see angles I might have missed, so this sort of thing is always healthy.