Geoff........allow me to fall at your feet. In fact I would've used your phone number but I wasn't sure it wasn't too late to do so.....

I don't know - I think your intellect is the match of anyone's here! - but whatever you THINK, your heart is certainly big, and in the right place.

To the OP: You've just illustrated - extremely well - what was wrong with the board. It was an elitist, snobby place. I've always despised people who deemed me inferior to them. I'm a fundamentalist egalitarian - until someone treats me like dirt. Then I realize that person is definitely NOT my equal: he or she is definitely a poor excuse for a human being.

Look at it any way you like - the bottom line is, we're all in this (the board, if you're here, whatever handle you go by - or the world in general) together. Learn and grow, accept or at least tolerate, forgive and offer forgiveness - or stop wasting space.