OK, will do. I've got a few more points of reference then I did when you first directed me to that article. So, I'm heading in the direction to ingest and make sense of:

"I'd like to recommend a different approach to hierarchies. Please see the following 2 articles...

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Hierarchy/94040/

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/94570/"