Well, so much for that idea

Had to roll back all my glorious code changes I'd been making over the past week, as we (the corporate "we") want to do things differently. Really, the whole issue stems from the completely ad-hoc design of the application/system in the first place; if I could rework more of the system, maybe I could make a better argument for the changes I had been working on.

I also discovered, by accident, that I have update rights on a dev database that I should only have read access to. I think.