Hi Ole,
Thanks for the reply. I'm used to being the "odd one" since high school, so it's not surprising that Adobe hates me and my workflow ("me and my workflow" -- sounds like a song).
Layers would be a good idea, except that the text changes from one process to another within the same text frame. I could duplicate the frame after I create it and delete the lines in each one that don't belong, but that pretty much makes the text non-editable by a "human" which is unacceptable in this case.
-Chuck