Cool! I was actually poking around the YOURS wiki. Many of my problems seem to be based around lookup. I found it a little confusing that the YOURS wiki claims to use Namefinder as its indexer, but then the Namefinder wiki page claims it's been obsolete for four years.
Anyway, checking out the actual source would probably clear things up. I might do that when I get home from the office.
If you want revolutionary progress, someone needs to "fund a team".
But evolutionary progress has a much smaller price tag: For example contribute to the routing mailing list and fund some hardware.