Steve are you sure you have the same 2005 NEC as the rest of us?
400.7(A)(3)?
A plug strip is not a portable lamp, sign or appliance. Listings Steve, it's all in the listing.
FWIW Fire inspectors regularly force the removal of 'relocatable power taps' (That is the listing of what we are talking about) When they decide they are being used in place of real wiring.
Say at the the local Mega-marts TV department, the Fire inspector walks in and finds daisy chained relocatable power taps or relocatable power taps supplied by an extension cord or a relocatable power tap fastened in place they are likely to force the removal of them as any of those conditions are listing violations.
