Thanks again for the input. I'm off on Saturday to Africa, where I won't have access to this forum, so that pretty much concludes my gathering the thoughts of other on this.
Part of the problem is that area that is unwritten and follows from the opinions of individual Training Captains when it comes to `what to do?´ SOPs can't cover everything.
That aside, having been in various temporarily elevated positions myself, I don't get hugely impressed by some pearl of wisdom from someone with a title but perhaps much less specific experience. I still have to evaluate each bit of gen for duffness or not.