No, actually, I don't have any compulsive traits, that I can honestly put my finger on Cáitrín. I don't drink, dont smoke tobacco, am not unfaithful to my wife. Music has been and is my life. I am a qualified 'academic' in, but not limited to, the subject that you are reading, and I have a medium to high tolerance level when it comes to people incessantly imposing too much non music related and irrelevant clap trap in this noblest of fora.
As for the ÁÉÍÓÚ - I think I saw somewhere that Áine has figured it out HTMLy. It's merely a keystroke to me.