  In the pre-WMAP, pre-Supernova-Ia-Hubble-diagram era, quasar lensing
statistics stubbornly indicated low values of Omega_Lambda. In contrast, a
number of recent lensing statistics studies either find the data support the
standard Lambda-CDM picture, or simply take the standard cosmological
parameters as a given. Have the data or the analyses changed or improved, and
how? I review several of the ``historical'' and the more recent studies, and
show that there is no particular measurement, assumption, or model parameter in
the old studies that was grossly wrong. Instead, at least several effects,
operating together, are likely required in order to achieve agreement between
the observations and the currently standard cosmology. Most likely among these
effects are: a somewhat lower lensing cross section for elliptical galaxies
than assumed in the past; some loss of lensed quasars in optical samples due to
extinction by the lenses; and a somewhat lower-than-standard value of
Omega_Lambda ~ 0.6. The agreement between recent model calculations and the
results of radio lens surveys may be fortuitous, and due to a cancellation
between the errors in the input parameters for the lens population and the
cosmology, on the one hand, and for the source population, on the other hand.
