Actually, it might not be so hard as it seems.... The headers follow a specified format, no? There are command-line editing tools that could change the ratings over. It'd be quite a bit of text, obviously -- if the Archives aren't hosted on a Linux machine, we might have to transfer the files, make the change, then transfer them back. If they are, though.... I know grep can process 10-20 megs in a minute or so on a strong system -- I wouldn't expect much different from sed. So we're probably talking runtime of a few hours at the outside to convert those files with a consistent header, right? Actual setup is probably limited to creating the proper sed instruction and running a test on a set of stories to make sure it's doing exactly what we want it to before we let it run loose on a full copy of the archive.
Now, if there are stories that predate the header format, then we may have issues.
