i called a friend at blizzard.. he hadn't heard this, but will look into it further and get the official answer on this. (hopefully)

in the TOS, whenever someone says to me. a developer, that i shouldn't modify game files, that would normally mean the binary, dlls, graphics, audio, tcp/udp stream, or memory... basically anything at run time.

i only modified a config file, which other addons and applications do... and anyone with notepad can do as well. is that automation? hardly. it just saves you from having to have multiple copies of wow laying around.

none of the changes effect in-game actions at all... only pre-game settings.

if they want it out, i'll remove it... no problem