I just reread 3-4 pages of posts, and I may have missed it, but did
my questions ever get answered? (Other than the totally unhelpful you should know if you just think about it answer I got initially.)
Much of the problem I have with the TSA is that we are required to follow a set of rules that we can not read, if we break them we can not know the penalty, and if we ask for clarification we are told it depends.