>A while back thief points were re-distributed, but we never
>re-calculated them on the thieves who had already practiced.
>With the addition of eye of avarice, we needed to re-calculate
>the points on all thieves so some people can no longer
>practice things they could have in the recent past.

I'm not sure if it will solve all your complaints, but there was a bug in the re-calculating formula which will be fixed next crash/reboot and every thief will once again be re-calc'd. Those of you who have precision strike or blackjack will notice a difference, the rest of you shouldn't.