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[Brendan Lally]

I've attached a rather bulky patch to casper's RFE at 
     
     http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1183961&group_id=13833&atid=363833
     
     

It is now at a state that it can be considered ready for wider review/testing.

If there is anyone who has time on their hands, there are two versions, one is 
the patch itself, one is a diff of only the files that have code changes, and 
is therefore sane to attempt to read. (as well as being less likely to break 
next server code update :) )

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.