2 things:
To caffineplease: Template would have done well for avoiding the multiple pairs of methods, but could not have helped in completely avoiding the fact that I need two members, wherein lie my original compiler problem. (BTW: This is a record-set type class, where the data type is not known. The Specific method-call generates the required type. It is up to the user to know what is expected, so that templates would be completely unhelpfull in this specific case).

To anyone else whom this thread is interesting:
I have discovered that in the original C compilers, function names overloading was possible as long as the parameters SIZE was different (that is: the total stack size the function call itself would require). It might be that the C++ compiler does the same thing, under certain circumstances.
Anyway, this is where my investigation is heading next....