> Okay, question #4... has anyone ever heard of Smarties? (i THINK that's what they're called) not the pure sugar American ones, the ones you can only get in Europe and Canada (in other words, that you CAN'T get in the US) that are essentially like M&Ms only a billion times better?

Absolutely. I used to get them all the time when I lived in England -- they were my favorite candy. As I recall, they were sold in a small candy bar sized cardboard tube with a plastic end cap you can pull out to open it. The end caps always had a random letter on the inside (capital letter on the bigger tubes, lower case on the smaller, I think I remember), but I'm not sure why. For a while, I collected them. But that was a lot time ago. Now I've pretty much forgotten what they taste like.

You can get them in Canada? I didn't know that. Next time I'm there, I'll look.