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It's just a way to work around a bunch of wonky game mechanics in order to let players have more creativity with their fort.

Exactly!  I'm all for this idea.

Will we get working crutches in dwarf mode soon, either in this release or the next?  It's one of the biggest bugs yet to be squashed, and it seems particularly tragic that after you went to the work of implementing this cool and useful feature something continues to keep it from actually working.

This is a great idea; if I get a chance I'd definitely like to contribute.

I'd like to proofread and possibly edit lines before adding them into the archive, and I'll repost any edits I intend to make before including them.  This is only to maintain a level of tone and linguistic style that remains true to the game, so please forgive this (if it helps, I am my own worst critic).  OP will be updated with a list of contributors when new versions of the mod are put together.

This, especially, is a good call.

Stunned hostile creatures can't avoid traps.  To get a friendly to trigger a trap I'm pretty sure they need to be fully unconscious.

I've been using dfcleanmap routinely for probably several game years now because of this issue.  The culprit is the one-eyed monster extract (ha ha but seriously that's what its called) the goblin leader left after his death, and anything more than the slightest contact causes blistering and, eventually, paralysis culminating in death by suffocation.  A year or two after the last reported case sleeping sicking I decided to make some clear glass blocks for my barracks' skylight.  I cued up some potash and pearlash and forgot about it--until I saw the dreaded "Potash maker cancels job: Paralyzed" pop up.  I zoom to him and see that he's standing in an entire pile of the deadly extract along with several pages worth of other contaminants.  Not only that, but instead of having blistered feet as the dwarves who went down to this stuff usually did, he had blisters on his mouth and hand.  He died pretty soon after that.  I has able to repeat this a couple times, although quick use of the clean map tool prevented any further deaths or injuries.  Somehow, the start (not the completion) of the make potash job is releasing a large amount of a variety of contaminants, despite the lack of any on the ash.   The amount varies as I repeat it; while the first looked like least 3.5 pages of pools of different liquids (I can't be positive it wasn't two combined), the last two together have only two pages of smatterings and a few pools of pus, ichor, and various bloods that didn't even include the dreaded extract. 

Has anyone else ever seen anything like this?

Can you tell if the problem is in the materials or in what the armor protects/covers?  When you look at battle reports, are the hits that get through ones that the armor should be covering (like the upper or lower body) or is it limited to more questionable areas that the armor might not be covering (like joints/fingers/faces)?

edit: If it is the first, I say do what NewsMuffin says first, then if it doesn't work start boosting the density.  If it's the second, then looking at http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Armor_Tokens my best guess is to use [UPSTEP] and [UBSTEP] to make armor that covers more of the body.  I've never modded armor so I don't know what values are best, but you can get a start by looking at whatever is there in unmodded DF. 

One thing I've noticed is that aquatic/amphibious civs will cross bodies of water during worldgen to found new sites.  I'm pretty sure (although definitely not positive) that regular land-lubber civs won't.

You need a forge, bars of metal and refined coal to make new weapons, but, if you press z and go to 'stocks' you can scroll down to your weapons, switch to the right side (arrow key), then simply press 'f' for every weapon that has an 'f' behind it to reclaim it.

What this guy said.  Also, from what you said earlier, it sounds like your "stockpile records" aren't up to date, which means you'll need to assign a bookkeeper (through the (n)obles screen) and give him an office if you haven't already (any office will do, a chair in a one tile room with no door is enough) and let him update stockpile records for a bit; shouldn't take more than a couple in-game weeks.

edit: Also, while you're in the noble menu, highlight the bookkeeper and go to (s)ettings.  Make sure the selected precision is at least low, I'd go to medium to be sure.