Well… let me see if I can be perfectly clear on what the client is looking for here.

The client wants to be able to create a kit containing group of products of varying quantities, and for stock quantities to be properly adjusted and shipping weights to be properly calculated when a purchase is made. The uc_product_kit does all this perfectly.

The issue comes with how the module deals with pricing. What we're hoping to do is to say, okay, the price of this kit is $X. No matter how many items the kit contains, or the total cost of those items; that's irrelevant. This kit costs $X. (A direct result of this "simple" kit pricing scheme is that the quantities of the items the kit contains would not be adjustable by the shopper.)

How kits currently are priced, however, is by totaling the price of its components. Now we can adjust the price of a kit by adjusting the price of its components, but that's a frustrating complication, and it also leads to components showing up with "wrong" prices when they are listed individually -- on the "cart-review" table, for example.

Not if the price of the kit is completely separate from the prices of its components -- which is what we're looking for here.

I guess what I'm sort of asking for here is a simplification, not a complication -- the standard product kit system is doing too much work we don't want it to do!

Another workaround idea, conceived after a lunch at Quizno's -- can we give a product a negative price, then add that product to a kit so that the individual items still have the same price, but the subtotal has the "discount product" taken out of it? Like how "value meals" are printed on fast-food restaurant receipts? Hmm, I'll try it.