This special casing's been in this functional path for a while and drives me nuts. (Like the static_tab one in course). A while back, I added a story to the db rearch epic (NTH not MH) to refactor the special cased course xblocks (about & course_info if not others). Part of me wants to wait until we get to that story to figure out the right thing here and just leave the old special casing in place. (Of course, part of me wants to fix everything now). I think the 'about' xblocks need similar treatment, but we haven't gotten to them yet. What do you think?