A better way kind of involves reprogramming the whole function from scratch, which is why it's been broken pretty much since Memories were invented despite years of piteous pleas for something better. Fortunately Dreamwidth has that on the list of things to do, and they're entirely open source, so maybe IJ will be able to use the solution they come up with. That level of rebuilding is probably going to be a year or so coming, though, so don't anyone hold your breath.

Gotcha. I figured it was something that would be time-consuming, but still just bringing up the "idea'. I did it the way these users mentioned, so its all good.