Perhaps I should rephrase:

"And finally, it does seem to come down to the same old thing. It only takes one. One infringed INDEPENDENT claim in one valid patent = infringement. End of story."

As for the rest, significance of an amendment, you can believe Henneman or not. But I would have to suggest that any amendment made during a reexam, whether to overcome prior art claims or not-necessarily-related examiner concerns, is likely done purely in the quest for a recert. Significance IMO is a judgment call for the knowledgeable, i.e., does it alter the original intent, or simply further clarify the original intent so that there is no future dispute?

Time to agree or to agree to disagree, I believe.

SGE