Thanks, the update worked, however with some post-update oddities:

org-hide-leading stars t hides the stars -- but only if I manually switch
from the Emacs default color theme to my favorite one
(color-theme-renegade). If I leave (color-theme-renegade) in my init, on
boot-up, org-mode does not hide the stars.

This never used to happen.

Secondly, now I have a bunch of information in my modeline that I had
customized out -- the names of headlines and sub-headlines at point.

While a nice feature, I prefer my modeline *only* to read what I had before
(the git branch I am on).

2013/2/19 Bastien <bzg@altern.org>

> Hi John,
>
> 42 147 <aeuster@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The @ replacement is also a sensible idea -- can either of you send
> > me the source code for this? Or how would I update my org-mode to
> > include it?
>
> If you want to use Org development branch, simply clone and build:
>
> ~$ git clone git://orgmode.org/org-mode.git
> ~$ cd org-mode
> ~$ make
>
> Then make sure you set the correct `load-path'.
>
> See http://orgmode.org/org.html#Installation for details.
>
> The change Suvayu sent is now in master.
>
> > Not exactly well-versed in Emacs,
>
> You'll soon get hooked, dont worry :)
>
> --
>  Bastien
>