as some of you already know, dries is considering rolling back the deletion API patch. for any of you that have an interest in why, or care about it's fate, i'd encourage you to read the exchanges he and i are having on the issue (towards the bottom): http://drupal.org/node/147723 in particular, here is a summary post of why i believe this API should be in drupal 6: http://drupal.org/node/147723#comment-267072