+#hmmm: begin old custom section...
+#hmmm: here is where it starts being wrong for a link due to current borked copy approach.
+## # prevent permission foul-ups.
+## my_user="$USER"
+## # here we definitely want the effective user name (in USER), since
+## # we don't want, say, fred (as logname) to own all of root's loading
+## # dock stuff.
+###hmmm: argh, seems a bit heavyweight to do chowning here!
+## chown -R "$my_user:$my_user" \
+## "$FEISTY_MEOW_LOADING_DOCK"/* "$FEISTY_MEOW_GENERATED_STORE"/* 2>/dev/null
+## continue_on_error "chowning feisty meow generated directories to $my_user"
+##
+## regenerate >/dev/null
+##
+## pushd "$FEISTY_MEOW_LOADING_DOCK/custom" &>/dev/null
+## incongruous_files="$(bash "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/files/list_non_dupes.sh" "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/customize/$custom_user" "$FEISTY_MEOW_LOADING_DOCK/custom")"
+##
+## local fail_message="\n
+##are the perl dependencies installed? if you're on ubuntu or debian, try this:\n
+## $(grep "apt.*perl" $FEISTY_MEOW_APEX/readme.txt)\n
+##or if you're on cygwin, then try this (if apt-cyg is available):\n
+## $(grep "apt-cyg.*perl" $FEISTY_MEOW_APEX/readme.txt)\n";
+##
+## #echo "the incongruous files list is: $incongruous_files"
+## # disallow a single character result, since we get "*" as result when nothing exists yet.
+## if [ ${#incongruous_files} -ge 2 ]; then
+## log_feisty_meow_event "cleaning unknown older overrides..."
+## perl "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/files/safedel.pl" $incongruous_files
+## continue_on_error "running safedel. $fail_message"
+## fi
+## popd &>/dev/null
+## log_feisty_meow_event "copying custom overrides for $custom_user"
+## mkdir -p "$FEISTY_MEOW_LOADING_DOCK/custom" 2>/dev/null
+## perl "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/text/cpdiff.pl" "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/customize/$custom_user" "$FEISTY_MEOW_LOADING_DOCK/custom"
+## continue_on_error "running cpdiff. $fail_message"
+##
+## if [ -d "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/customize/$custom_user/scripts" ]; then
+## log_feisty_meow_event "copying custom scripts for $custom_user"
+###hmmm: could save output to show if an error occurs.
+## rsync -avz "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/customize/$custom_user/scripts" "$FEISTY_MEOW_LOADING_DOCK/custom/" &>/dev/null
+## continue_on_error "copying customization scripts"
+## fi
+## regenerate
+##
+## # prevent permission foul-ups, again.
+## chown -R "$my_user:$my_user" \
+## "$FEISTY_MEOW_LOADING_DOCK" "$FEISTY_MEOW_GENERATED_STORE" 2>/dev/null
+## continue_on_error "once more chowning feisty meow generated directories to $my_user"
+#hmmm: begin old custom section.
+
+####
+
+#hmmm: begin new customization section...
+ # recreate the feisty meow loading dock.