Putting the index at the end slows access times by forcing extra seeks, thus making individual files slower to load. It''s not a big difference, but since (as I explained) putting the index at the end is more or less useless, there''s really no reason for the extra complexity.

"Sneftel is correct, if rather vulgar." --Flarelocke

When are you going to give in? So this isn''t just a girly fight, post some evidence of how it''s so useless. How slow is 1 more seek? All you would have to do is seek into the index. How much more code do you have to add to reorder a file with the index in the front?

Actualy, I guess if you look at it from the, "if it isn''t broke dont fix it" view, it is useless for his only listed purpose.