Hi Peter,
I understand the frustration when threads go off topic. From my point of view, the thread wasn't just about the index not being connected because I needed to take a holistic approach to the problem if I was going to effectively solve it. If I came up with a solution that didn't consider the case of threading, I might see another thread pop up tomorrow about threading not working. I thought the thread was finished, and Jeff was capping it off with information that I thought was relative enough to the topic. We can disagree about how relative it is, but I think it was relative enough.
Now we're definitely getting off topic!

Cheers,
Greg