Last question for the time being -- I set this up in a sandbox environment last night after Alex's response to me, and so far I'm loving it (we've made some changes in look to suit our purpose). The one thing that we're struggling with a bit is that we would like for the most recent replies to a post to show at the top of the reply chain (versus the bottom as is currently implemented) all the way down the reply tree. It looks like we're going to have to make edits to entry.tpl.inc, and most likely another file as well.

Has anyone implemented this in this manner before?