Thank you Richard and Jason for your timely input, it's much appreciated. As per Jason's advice, I won't mess with the period. As for Richard's, thank you for the workaround. That'll work just fine and dandy for me, since I hard coded the drop, give, get etc. functions to automatically coalesce the items in question (ammunition) similar to how gold and silver coins are. =)
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