We have repurposed the ZDiscussion product and now need to repackage it so we can easily create instance of our repurposed discussions. It would seem to be a straightforward thing, but it's been causing me difficulty. What we've done is modify an instance of ZDiscussion to do our bidding. Having gotten a version we like, we want to make it into a ZClass so we can instantiate instances of the revised ZDiscussion. And, truth be told, there are several different and distinct variations on the theme that we want to work in the same system. It should almost be as simple as copying code, but it isn't. There's an inheritence issue--ZItem and ZTopic (the inner classes) both inherit from ZBase. The code for ZBase is nowhere to be seen. It does appear that the ZClass names are hardwired somehowa. So, the goal is to take variations (significant variations) of ZDiscussions instances and refactor them into standalone products. How to do it? -dra