most required a stringy syntax in the parser; now integers and floats
 can (or should) be handled. There is at least one cheesy error message
 mentioning sending mail to me if there are problems; should be changed
 prior to release.
Allow lists of values from the parser in more cases. If multiple arguments
 were not allowed previously, they probably are not allowed now, but at
 least the data structures being passed around are more consistant across
 more cases.