diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs
index 168a3201..5668cf74 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs
@@ -573,8 +573,15 @@ fn a_cooldown_count_draws_over_the_bonus_bars_sweep() {
             consumable: false,
         }),
     );
+    // Driven the way the server drives it, not by a bare `Show()`: an offset, then
+    // `UPDATE_BONUS_ACTIONBAR`. Both halves are needed. The event is what runs
+    // `ActionButton_Update` on the bonus row, and only there does a button register the cooldown
+    // event at all — inside the `HasAction` arm (`ActionButton.lua:137-155`) — so a bar merely
+    // shown carries no action and never hears `ACTIONBAR_UPDATE_COOLDOWN`. And the offset is what
+    // keeps the bar up: the event's own handler hides it again when `GetBonusBarOffset()` is 0.
+    s.set_bonus_bar_offset(1);
     s.fire_event("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD", vec![]);
-    s.run("BonusActionBarFrame:Show()").unwrap();
+    s.fire_event("UPDATE_BONUS_ACTIONBAR", vec![]);
     s.tick(10.0);
     s.set_action_state(
         73,
@@ -1700,10 +1707,12 @@ fn bonus_bar_slides_up_with_sound_and_down_without() {
             .into_iter()
             .map(|u| (u.action, u.on_self))
             .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
-        vec![(73, false)],
-        "the BONUS branch of stock ActionButtonUp passes a literal 0 for onSelf (ActionButton.lua:38) \
-         — in a stance, ALT-1 drives the bonus page without self-cast; the reference's own rule, \
-         not the (73, true) a self-cast would give"
+        vec![(73, true)],
+        "the realm unified `ActionButtonUp`: one body picks the bonus or the normal button and \
+         then passes the caller's own `onSelf` through to `UseAction` \
+         (`ActionButton.lua:27-46`). Stock 1.12 had a separate BONUS branch that handed `UseAction` \
+         a literal 0, so ALT-1 in a stance drove the bonus page *without* self-casting — that \
+         quirk is gone, and a self-cast binding self-casts on the bonus bar too."
     );
     s.run("BonusActionBarFrame:Hide() ActionButtonDown(1) ActionButtonUp(1, 1)")
         .unwrap();
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/test_ui.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/test_ui.rs
index d4a22266..aab3bd74 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/test_ui.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/test_ui.rs
@@ -107,11 +107,17 @@ const PREREQS: &[(&str, &[&str])] = &[
         ],
     ),
     (
+        // The `.xml` only. It brings its own `<Script file="UIDropDownMenu.lua">`, and listing the
+        // chunk here as well **re-runs** it: the file declares
+        // `UIDROPDOWNMENU_DEFAULT_TEXT_HEIGHT = nil` at scope (`UIDropDownMenu.lua:16`) and
+        // `DropDownList1`'s OnLoad is what fills it in from Button1's own font
+        // (`UIDropDownMenu.xml:11`). A second chunk run after that OnLoad put the nil back, and
+        // then every dropdown row `UIDropDownMenu_AddButton` painted hit
+        // `SetFont(STANDARD_TEXT_FONT, nil)` — which is a usage refusal, so a whole file's OnLoads
+        // failed one after another. The load ledger cannot catch it: a `<Script file=>` chunk goes
+        // through the loader, not through `load_entry`, so it is not in the ledger to begin with.
         "paperdollframe.xml",
-        &[
-            r"Interface\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua",
-            r"Interface\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.xml",
-        ],
+        &[r"Interface\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.xml"],
     ),
     (
         "containerframe.xml",
@@ -121,6 +127,12 @@ const PREREQS: &[(&str, &[&str])] = &[
         "merchantframe.xml",
         &[r"Interface\FrameXML\ItemButtonTemplate.xml"],
     ),
+    // `DropDownList1`'s OnLoad reads `DropDownList1Button1NormalText:GetFont()` for
+    // `UIDROPDOWNMENU_DEFAULT_TEXT_HEIGHT` (`UIDropDownMenu.xml:11`), and every row
+    // `UIDropDownMenu_AddButton` paints goes through `SetFont(STANDARD_TEXT_FONT, that)`
+    // (`UIDropDownMenu.lua:199`), which refuses a nil height. The realm's toc has `Fonts.xml` at
+    // row 14 and this file at 26, so the live client always has the fonts first.
+    ("uidropdownmenu.xml", &[r"Interface\FrameXML\Fonts.xml"]),
     // `CONTINENTS_LENGTH = 2`, the realm's two-continent map (`Overrides.lua:1`, toc row 13 — 72
     // rows above this file). `WorldMap_UpdateContinentDropDownText` and its zone twin compare the
     // current continent against it unguarded (`WorldMapFrame.lua:440`, `:457`), so a harness that
@@ -189,6 +201,13 @@ const PREREQS: &[(&str, &[&str])] = &[
 /// loaded again for the next — and these are not virtual-only files: `MoneyInputFrame.xml`,
 /// `UIDropDownMenu.xml` and `ItemButtonTemplate.xml` each build concrete frames too, so a second
 /// load would duplicate them.
+///
+/// It guards a file a kit names **twice** as well, which is not hypothetical tidiness: a second
+/// load builds a second frame under the same name, the global keeps one of them, and a parent
+/// comparison in the reference's own Lua (`parent == MultiBarRight`,
+/// `ActionButton.lua:363`) then reads false for a button whose parent *is* named that. That is
+/// what a double XML load looks like from inside a test, and the reference never does one — the
+/// toc names each file once.
 const LOAD_LEDGER: &str = "__benilla_test_loaded";
 
 fn already_seated(s: &UiScript, path: &str) -> bool {
@@ -223,6 +242,9 @@ fn load_entry(s: &UiScript, entry: &str, strict_templates: bool, no_warnings: bo
             }
         }
     }
+    if already_seated(s, &path) {
+        return 0;
+    }
     mark_seated(s, &path);
     let bytes = read(&path).unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("{entry}: not found"));
     if path.to_ascii_lowercase().ends_with(".lua") {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_anchor_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_anchor_tests.rs
index fa7295e2..2286e3e0 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_anchor_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_anchor_tests.rs
@@ -259,6 +259,8 @@ fn action_button_hover_takes_the_default_corner() {
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\Fonts.xml",
         r"Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.lua",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\TextStatusBar.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
@@ -297,8 +299,15 @@ fn ubertooltips_off_seats_action_bar_plates_beside_the_button() {
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\MainMenuBar.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
+        // Before `BonusActionBarFrame.xml`, as the realm's toc has it (rows 48 and 84), and the
+        // order is load-bearing: `ShapeshiftBar_OnLoad` runs `UIParent_ManageFramePositions` at
+        // load, whose stand-in pass seats a hidden, parentless frame for any managed name that is
+        // still absent — `MultiBarRight` among them. A frame's publish to `_G` never overwrites
+        // (`0x701bd0`), so a stand-in seated first keeps the global for good, and
+        // `ActionButton_SetTooltip`'s `parent == MultiBarRight` (`ActionButton.lua:363`) then
+        // reads false for a button whose parent really is the bar.
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\BonusActionBarFrame.xml",
-        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ActionBarFrame.xml",
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\UIDropDownMenu.xml",
         "ScrollTemplates.xml",
         r"Interface\FrameXML\UIPanelTemplates.lua",
@@ -308,7 +317,6 @@ fn ubertooltips_off_seats_action_bar_plates_beside_the_button() {
         "Interface\\FrameXML\\StaticPopup.xml",
         "KeyBindingsPage.xml",
         "OptionsFrame.xml",
-        "Interface\\FrameXML\\MultiActionBars.xml",
     ]);
     s.register_cvars(crate::cvars::registered_pairs());
     s.set_cvar_engine("UberTooltips", "0");
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs
index c6edb643..686d4a11 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ const ROUTER_UI: [&str; 4] = [
 fn player() -> UnitState {
     UnitState {
         exists: true,
+        // `CharacterFrame_OnShow` gsubs `UnitPVPName("player")` unguarded
+        // (`CharacterFrame.lua:85`), and `gsub` raises on a nil first argument.
+        name: Some("Gromgosh".into()),
         level: 60,
         race: Some("Human".into()),
         race_file: Some("Human".into()),