Again, thanks for the help.

The plot thickens. As it turns out, I didn't just fall into that trap. I actually thought I read somewhere that the simulator would run the 'initial' block once before it did anything else, and that the synthesizer would ignore the 'initial' block completely.

I have no idea if I can find again where I read that, but I'll try. It would be interesting to see what it really said.

-- Russ