I think everyone involved is at fault if for no more reason than poor planning, a series of unintentional mistakes were made, and everybody's gone into disaster control / embellishment mode. Time will have the answers.
Most sensible comment made in this thread so far.
Having just come back from a personal visit to the site that appears to be the case.
[This message has been edited by iwire (edited 12-31-2006).]
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