Since I forgot to mention it all those years ago - to whomever designed NURBSSurface.ControlPoints to describe the points in the U direction ascending while requiring all commands that build surfaces to describe points in the V direction ascending, thank you from the bottom of my heart....and to the documentation team for not mentioning this fact either. I don't know what I would've done with all that hair I used to have.
I hate Wednesdays.
