That would be a great design change to the light. I'd like to do that resister mod you did to yours, but my wife is quite protective of hers. I'm really considering buying an other one from that vendor you found. $43 is such a good price.
JohnnyMac and Spasmod mod are respected members here too. I should start visiting TFF. I tried to a few times back when I was on a dial up connection. I had to give up because all the high quality pictures there would take forever to load. Actually, I don't think I was ever to get a single page to fully load.
You seem like you're pretty comfortable modding. We have a bunch of exciting things going on with drivers and FW these days. If you have been wanting to make any of your lights work different, you may want to check out some of the bare driver boards that have been developed by members here and are available for pretty much nothing from OSH Park.