Jim - I talked to navaho when I first started writing these, and he though they were a good idea and probably the best way to handle it. The libraries allow you to install, uninstall, and interface with additional fields without interfering with any other installed hacks. The user just has to have the libraries installed themselves and do a one-time setup as described in the readme. In the event that Infopop adds more fields to the profile, the template used by the libraries would make it very easy to write an upgrade script that converted all the profiles to the new format.
I'm afraid I don't understand, could you please clarify what information you're looking for?