Thanks guys for all the suggestions.
Lee, I like...
(setq var '
(cmdecho clayer celtype celtscale osmode
) ;; List of system variables whose values will be modified
With my limited exposure I hadn't really considered this. Makes sense though. Thanks for the line by line comments to. Big help.
kdub,
Although I didn't use your suggestion, I filed it away in my "starter code" folder.
Marc' Antonio,
Sadly I'm not familiar with this approach. Baby steps, I say. Baby steps.