A) (And I thought I had done this earlier today) Some dictionaries order their defintions historically rather than from most to least common in modern usage.

2) The root of confabulate is in the Latin fabulor, fabulari to chat, gossip. It is also the root of the Spanish and Portuguese words for to speak, hablar and falar, respectively.

Þ) If you compose in something other than the Post box, just let things go, not adding any RETURNs. Let the AWAD thang do it for you. Or if you do use the Post box in AWAD, do it the same way.