I took some time off from working on the mailing list software. Got a bit burned out. I just went back to it yesterday, and found a few things I needed to add to the list. Okay, no biggie, it happens.
Among the additions was another set of child classes to handle admin messages. I stumbled around a bit trying to remember how I was doing things ... it might as well have been someone else who wrote it.
So I copied one of the other child classes, made the changes that looked like they should do what I want, and tested it. *poof* It works. That's so freaking cool.