look what i found!
see, i thought it was just me. i thought, well, gemma, you probably shouldn't be trying to inherit from base singletons anyway. you're not really a programmer, what do you know? go play with bash, you'll feel better. (incidentally, i did it anyway and just felt dirty.) but no! it's the language! check out the bottom of her brother's post, the part that mentions engine-level changes being necessary. not to mention that list of honest-to-goodness bugs.
ah, i feel better. more whole (except you can't really be "more whole"--either you're whole or you're not...). validated. no half-hearted-pun intended.