After wagging my tail helplessly in the mire of the low-tide period of my career (2 tasks in my work routine in which I'm facing problems I couldn't solve) these few days, I can finally say that I'm now out of it!
Again, thanks, YY, for the crucial part of the promotion thing. I did look at the program but I sort of overlooked that file.
As for the other task, all I can say is that the problem was actually much smaller than I imagined.
Which is typical of most of the stuff I'm dealing with.
Anyway, it's really like a huge load has been lifted off my chest!