sadly, I agree......still dancing in MY head.
Actually, I think this is one of the things that is going to make it difficult for Pope Benedict.
JPII seems to have had an entirely different view of the situation and the fact that the Muslims are out there waving his picture (and in particular that awful picture) indicates this. Although it's hard to say - today I read something from one of the former pope's advisors on Islam, who apparently routinely wrote or rewrote JPII's statements so that they would not contain anything possibly "offensive" or even substantive. So who knows what JPII really thought?
But in any case, some of the rather vague statements in Vatican II documents, coupled with some really misleading statements in various catechisms plus some very puzzling actions by JPII, are going to make it a thornier question. I think this is one of the reasons BXVI is reaching back into older Church documents and teachings. For one thing, he knows the exist, and I am not at all sure many modern theologians do (since they believe the Church began in 1965). But another is that they were not tainted by PC and are unambiguous.