Somehow it never occured to me that I could view and edit the contents of a recording. Of course, it's just a register, so I pasted the register; edited the contents; then yanked the lines back into the register... and naturally this worked fine.
I was thinking that there should be a way to take the register lines and automatically turn them into an noremap (including adding the @ to start register playback). Has anyone perfected this? Yours, Noah