order of operations for a particular pair of calls was errantly reversed.  caught in *testing* ;~) ... and fixed
the efforts in improving the "diesnice" aspect of the test suite have been very fruitful in revealing "bugs" that have been latent and hidden for a long time but probably seldom encountered but by the poor poor fella who got bit.  sorry fella.  These little logic errors and switches are getting fixed and flipped to the correct defaults for exception handling and error detection.  There is still a small amount of work left to do in this area, but I am pleased with where we are.  Tomorrow the rest of the "diesnice" tests should be completed and any other latent bugs of a similar nature will be eliminated