>2) It doesn't make sense to me that thornheart is healable and
>spores is not. One is a thorn growing in your heart, the other
>is spores growing in your brain. Make the curability uniform
>one way or the other? Probably in the direction of thornheart
>uncurable without healing sleep...that's fine....the world
>needs more druids.

I'm 90% sure both of these spells have identical curing conditions for everything that can/can't cure them, FYI, though both are very, very hard with anything short of HS in a healer's arsenal.