I AM SO SAD...please update Firestorm cats too!

[Tad Carlucci]

Any possible solution involves(1) remembering to ALWAYS include EVERY required out-of-date version in EVERY Updater, Dock, and Magic Bottle; and (2) remembering why there is a check, what it checks, and what needs to be changed for the next time.

You're right, it's nothing more than "if .. then .. else" but that's only for ONE such special case. Next year, if they do it again, it's two, then three, then four ... eventually they'll either make a mistake, or, worse yet, hit a limit on how many objects one can store in an object, or how complex the script can be, or something.

But, yeah, most programmers will take the expedient route, slap in the needed code, and pray management never asks if it's really a good idea to go down that route.