I accidentally spent the entire week on UASG (or to be extremely specific, on those freaking dreadlocks >_<).
I'm currently on my...6th or 7th iteration.
I thought I'd be a smartarse and lay out the curve guides first (which I think I mentioned last progblog), and then followed up with experiments on whether I use the particle hair controls or the similar looking controls on the curve guides themselves to do the dreadlocks.
The curve guide controls couldn't get values as high as the actual particle hair settings so I used those instead.