  Because of a close blood relationship between directed percolation & directed
polymers in random media, the latter's journey to asymptotic scaling can be
greatly retarded by an uninformed choice of departure point; i.e., the
bare-bond PDF employed in the transfer matrix study. Bisecting a gaussian noise
distribution, examining DPRM scaling for left & right halves separately, and
comparing results against the full PDF, reveals in the simplest possible manner
the essence of this dilemma. Paradoxically, when the bare-bond PDF possesses a
relative shortage [left demi-gaussian], rather than abundance [right
demi-gaussian] of low energy bonds, much better scaling is achieved. This
finding is somewhat counterintuitive since a zero-temperature DPRM seeks the
globally minimal path through a random energy landscape. Nevertheless, the
behavior is easily traced to the strong influence of the neighboring DP fixed
point function.
  This note communicates, in part, unpublished work referenced in Phys. Rev.
E58, R4096 (1998). We discovered, as well, that the RG road to asymptopia can
be highly refined by bootstrapping the presumed universal distribution from the
getgo...
