I am now significantly more knowledgeable about m4, and the website incidentally has the beginnings of a nice framework which means I no longer have to deal with massive quadruply-nested-HTML-tables. Oh, and the navigation system is more flexible now too (it doesn't rely on links-that-are-images-with-text anymore, and the HTML is significantly cleaner and (will) use almost no absolute positioning).
Soon as I finish it I'll show it to Laura and then push it to the live site (while holding my breath and knocking on wood).
But none of this is getting my history done ... ::sigh::
-- Des