accidentally hit shift enter, which I am used to in instant messenger, but it finished my commit comment, now I continue here...

to explain hcfjob a bit more....
0 (done)
1 (done)
2 (done)
3 (done) <-- hcfjob
4 (not done) not done possibly cause of a new job with higher priority
5 (done)
6 (not done)
7 (not done) <-- highest_jobnum

example above also describes highest_jobnum, which I also found very useful for scanning and creating the next job (new_jobnum = highest_jobnum + 1).

I might have done more work on the_finisher function as well... can't remember and I need to rest... its 2:20 am