Hyper about hyphens

Over the course of my editing and being edited yesterday, I had some hyphen-related episodes that I'd like to share:

1. AIG Travel Guard is not hyphenated, according to their own Web site. It's inconsistent across our text archives, and seeing as how this is a big story right now (especially in Point), it's important to keep it consistently correct. (Thanks to Kerry for putting my feet to the fire on this last night.)
2. The AP stylebook is a bit fuzzy in what to do with hyphenating "grade" and "grader," and you have to read between the lines of their examples a bit to know what they mean. A word like "fifth-grader" is always hyphenated. However, "fifth-grade" as an adjective is hyphenated, where "fifth grade" as a noun is not, because the adjectival form is a compound modifier. (It bears pointing out that the examples given for "fifth-grade" are only for the adjectival form, not the noun.) So you would say, "He visited the fifth-grade class," and "He is in fifth grade."

Yes, they are only hyphens, but it is our job to sweat the small stuff.