"Outsmarting" auto-autoloads

I'm trying to work out some things that modify values defined by "auto-autoloads.elc". If I go to the origin source and modify & recompile it, it appears I've not accomplished the change because the value that gets loaded is the one from auto-autoloads. I'm guessing this winds up in the dumped code (?) Does that mean I need to do a "temacs" install and dump in order to change these? There's a big sign at the head of "auto-autoloads.el" saying "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE" -- so y'all will understand why I haven't jumped right in and done so. Presumably, what is needed is to go back and run the process that scours the "auto-autoloads" material out of the several sources. And that would be, what? I can see that it consists of definitions grabbed out of their originating library, so it shouldn't be impossible to just recopy the changed lisp. But I'm gun shy in the face of that warning. I'm really really trying to avoid having to do a complete rebuild. So far my batting average for recompiles is zero! -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!