This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
This closes PR#1975 and was on my TODO list, so I'm breaking my own "no more
commits before I fly!" rule and taking care of this, since it was at the
very top and Peter shamed me in to taking care of it. This is definitely
a 2.2 candidate.
Submitted-By: Mark Diekhans <markd@Grizzly.COM>