Robert, why on earth would you think that these are not FICO comments? They mirror published FICO advice.
As you yourself are the first to announce, FICO scoring is incredibly complex. There are many, many factors involved, and as one area of your credit changes, the balance among these factors changes, and new areas become important.
Yes, it's very humorous when the history part keeps flip-flopping back and forth, but that's because they combined the overall history factor and the average history factor into one comment, so you can have great overall length of history and terrible average history, as do I. Sometimes it's on the positive side, and sometimes it's on the negative side, depending on whether one of the other factors being considered is carrying more weight at the moment.
* Credit is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. * Who's the boss --you or your credit?
FICO's: EQ 781 - TU 793 - EX 779 (from PSECU) - Done credit hunting; having fun with credit gardening. - EQ 590 on 5/14/2007