Have you ever output a form array? (print_r(array_values($form))) I did. It's huge as every element has the entire registry in the array.
If you want to try it, be careful as it will eat up your memory. Make a form with one form element just to see.
So AbanteCart gurus, can you tell me why every form element includes the entire registry as one of it's array values? There must be some valid reason to have all of this overhead every time you output a form.
Don