As a user of emptool I can add arbitrary fields to the database. I don't have to be able to program at all.

You are quite correct that this doesn't actually help the end user. That's what I meant when I said that it didn't do me much good to have all these fields. I've just been populating them against the possibility of some kind of "search by field x" functionality or "display all fields" info display eventually making its way into the player.

Richard.