Progress!!
Okay, I've actually made progress. After coming up with about 8 typed pages of documentation on basic classes, I have enough to begin laying out the simple structures. So far, I've only developed two classes, but these are core to the system working, so I'm quite pleased. They demonstrate the behavior that they are supposed to have in the mathematical sense, and that's the key portion. So I think if I can truly insure this behavior, then the rest should be relatively easy. I'm not going to let myself get side-tracked into unnecessary topics like I did before. This is not to say that I may have to put this project down to finish other things (I do work in a super-computing lab by day, so I do have lots of odds and ends for that), but it means I will not get really far away from what I was working on.

Good bits to you.