No trust me, you worded it just fine, and I found it helpful too, because I didn't know that. I briefly skimmed over something that said that in the new book I'm reading, but it didn't register until just now.

It did take a little of the magic out of my singleton->registry evolution though, haha. I just modified my load() *again* quickly, and it's gone from being 21 lines at the start of today to 10 lines as of now. Like I said, I'll just keep the more complicated version on the shelf to show to employers. They can go ooo, aah, and then I can optimize things later.
-m