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OP Thank you very much for the instruction.
Apposite to the purpose for which this message board was created, let me put it thusly:
What is the opposite of computer-genius?
Let it be my new moniker.
However, I only wish your attention to the details of the message board's technical workings extended to the entries they are surely ancillary to.
To explain:
You write:
"I'm not sure it was a case of one being incorrect; let me go take another look [...] tell you what--I think this thread may be a matter of lack of information."
But I'm afraid it was a question of one being (believed to be) incorrect.
Recall the poster from the same thread who wrote:
"What I struggle with is that "would have liked" sounds like past tense, and "see" sounds like present tense."
You will argue that here the poster is merely speaking of preference, not of correct or incorrect. But I rest my case on the word "struggle".
It was this "struggle" I was addressing.
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