First, thanks Matt for the bundle of patches, and for being willing to have some back and forth and comments.
Second, I believe I've applied any outstanding patches I know about that were sent to the mailing list recently. If I've ignored a patch, please let me know, and I'll take a look. I see some stuff in the github fork queue, but it's not obvious what's applied and what's not. Third, we're probably going to move to a new central github repo as the master, so Ask can use his "branch" for his own development and not have it serve two purposes. Stay tuned. -R