>To put this in yet another perspective, doing some ballpark figuring
>puts SotS so far at about 425,000 - 430,000 words, conservatively
>speaking.

According to Word, there are (counting credits and everything) 415,541 words in the Symphony through the end of "Pavane for a Dead Princess." (Yes, I've got it all put together in a single Word file. Yes, I'm nuts, but what the hell.) I'm not sure how accurate that is... but it's at least something to go on.