<i>It's a hard problem to which I have only a partially satisfactory answer... but I digress.</i> On the contrary, you touch the heart of the matter. You say

<i>It's a hard problem to which I have only a partially satisfactory answer... but I digress.</i> On the contrary, you touch the heart of the matter. You say what you are doing is "hacking", with the implication that there exists some other process by which your problem could be solved. Can you tell me what this process is, and why you are not following it?