it's days like this when i really have to be careful, or i'll just snap and start working on reimplementing all the proprietary third party software i have to work with from scratch. it'd be a collosal pain in the ass, and we'd probably have the same kind of issues with an in-house rewrite as we have with the third party stuff now, but at least then when shit breaks i'd be able to try to debug it, rather than just having to sit back and say "yep, it sure doesn't seem to be working".