My thinking about this case has become very uptight
BLARGH, so in all this trying to get baritone strings to work hoo-hah, I realized a couple things. First, if I just got a set of strings for a 7-string guitar (with the low B that the kids so enjoy), I could use that and just leave off the high E. Then I realized that once I did that, I would have just had the same nearly tuning I used to use, which was 4 semitones below my current one–and used regular guitar strings, no less. So instead, I just got a regular set of strings, and then a really thick low E (.058), since the store didn’t have any low Bs (.062). It pretty much works.
SO–the old tuning was DGDGAD, and I used it quite a bit, but then I got bored and dropped the lowest D down to a really floppy C, and then put a capo on the 4th fret. This turned out to be a goldmine, so I restrung the guitar to not have to use a damn capo: EBF#BC#D (For that F# I have to use a D string, and then I use two Bs for the B and C#).