> BTW, I've been wanting a really good generic library to handle unexpected exceptions

I've had really good luck with Mongoose (http://themongoose.sourceforge.net/).  You register exception handlers for uncaught 
exceptions.  It comes with one that does logging, one that emails, etc.  One other interesting feature is that it hashes the 
exception type, file name, function name, and other stuff to generate a "Mongoose Incident Identifier(TM)" so you 
(theoretically) have a unique identifier for each independent bug.