I'm new to this thread, so please excuse my ignorance of the early stages - I will try to catch up at some point. I just read the last three pages or so. Also, apologies to Trooperman as these comments are not related to SotDS.

MTHaslett - somebody has to get you onto some editing software! Your analysis and reconstruction of TPM is the best I've read, bar none. All your ideas are streamlined and coherent. The trouble is, you'll never be satisfied with an edit which uses some of your ideas and leaves out others. So please, do your own edit.