>Ned and Tim,
>
>After delving quite a bit further into this, I finally decided to 
>give up on the early-entry-into-the-world approach, and instead 
>frontally addressed the issue of getting the updating menu items 
>precomputed without their coming into the world, and that seems to 
>do the trick, so at the moment this appears to be a vastly favorable 
>alternative, resulting in just the invalidations one would hope for, 
>yet circumventing the spurious-menu-selection bug.


I just checked it out in both my images, and it works great!

	Thanks,

	-- tim
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      -- tim