Patch Soup

First, thanks Matt for the bundle of patches, and for being willing to
have some back and forth and comments.

Second, I believe I've applied any outstanding patches I know about
that were sent to the mailing list recently.  If I've ignored a patch,
please let me know, and I'll take a look.  I see some stuff in the
github fork queue, but it's not obvious what's applied and what's
not.

Third, we're probably going to move to a new central github repo as
the master, so Ask can use his "branch" for his own development and
not have it serve two purposes.  Stay tuned.

-R