I don't needle Scotley ALL the time, just most of it. But I don't understand how you keep us in stitches if I have all the needles? Oh, well...
Yeah, Scotley, my hardcopy (or one of them, anyway) is 4th printing, too.
I will just say that my ass-backwards rule interpretation still appears to me to be a legitimate interpretation. Instead of doing the logical thing like you and Fenris by looking up the skill in question, I went to Table 8-2 [p. 183 in the 4th printing] and saw that using a skill is usually a standard action. It just so happens that, apparently, this isn't a usual case at all, big surprise.