So I knocked the product dependencies into submission, and even gave the product page a nice dhtml tree view (Tree::Simple::View). Now I just have a few niceties to put in (expand all) and displaying the products with their parents in appropriate places ("Cake: Frosting: Chocolate" instead of just "Chocolate").
In other news, our dishwasher died...luckily I know of a used dishwasher place, and they should be able to repair it or sell us a new (used) one. We'll see.
