Hello Graham,

You write, 'But they have solved it ... countless times. Don't tell me you are going to join them'

I don't think so.
1) I don't even begin to understand Petrie's survey data and 2) I'm struggling to finish my own hypothesis on Khufu's pyramid, and so can't be of much help to Don, C. Wayne, and Co.

You write, 'Look, I do a bit of dabbling myself but when I offer I check and double check and then pull it apart from the outside in. It saves a lotta time later on.'

I use much the same technique myself, though not as religiously as perhaps I should.
Generally speaking, I look on hypotheses about the layout of the Giza necropolis as works in progress publically displayed, so we get to see the trial and error, the mistakes, the process of elimination in all their glory.
I also think it's quite a good idea for these steadily evolving hypotheses to be posted here for constructive critical analysis by a mixture of folks (I do not consider comments such as "there is no evidence for this blah, blah, blah..." to be constructive criticism).

Now I think about it, if I weren't so obsessed with secrecy (only three people know the full content of my hypothesis - and one of them is my cat, Miss Tilly) I would seriously consider following the examples set by Don, C. Wayne et al.

MJ