Hey, Mike...
I guess maybe 'accept' isn't the best word, since there wasn't much choice...more like 'lived with it and moved on'. ;)
But even with what I found on inheritance and using base properties over the last few months to get closer to what I would have expected with inheritance, Bonnie's post about DefaultValue has me thinking that maybe there is a way - at least enough so that I want to start looking at it again.
Kevin