Whew. So many thanks to everyone who gave me their thoughts and ideas on how to put that together; you helped me so much. If you see any problems or have additional thoughts, don't hesitate to comment on the post, or to PM me.
On a slightly different fannish note, the

Speaking of Numb3rs, I had a random fannish dream last night. A lot of it was very mixed up, but basically I was either watching or involved in an episode of Numb3rs, in something very DRAMATIC happens to one of the main characters. I remember thinking, briefly, "but no! It doesn't happen this way!" because in non-dreaming RL I've been spoiled for an upcoming plot twist that was very similar to this. And I remember looking at a list of upcoming episode titles on a computer screen and deciding that they were rumors, because I know one title and they'd gotten it wrong, and because in one episode Megan would be coming back, and I didn't think that likely.
So still anxiety dreams, I guess, but of a much more amusing variety.