Hi Ed,
Thanks for the detail, it was great. (Not "abusive" at all!) It's a good idea, and I've got a similar "mojo" script here, but dropped the idea of e-mail updates (for the album) quite a while ago... Not sure why, I guess I never had time to send the e-mail!
What you want to do is find the sortObjects subroutine, and just replace the whole thing with the new copy. There actually aren't that many changes to it, but a wholesale replacement is probably easiest.
Cheers