Thanks for the information on the GFCI's. I wasn't aware of the time line involved, but my limited reading on the subject seemed to make it less time that I had thought.
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Adoption of GFCI's was slow, and the application was quite limited, until the thing was prooven in the field.
Now if someone can convince the CMP to wait on the use of AFCI's on ALL circuits untill the things are proven to work safely and properly, we'll all be better off.