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diff --git a/man/mh-profile.man b/man/mh-profile.man
index 901d69fa..f34ac4ba 100644
--- a/man/mh-profile.man
+++ b/man/mh-profile.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MH-PROFILE %manext5% "February 16, 2014" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH MH-PROFILE %manext5% "April 18, 2014" "%nmhversion%"
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ can be used to select alternate programs if the
 user wishes.  The default values are given in the examples.
 .PP
 If the profile element contains spaces, the element is split at spaces
-into tokens and each token is given as a seperate argument to the
+into tokens and each token is given as a separate argument to the
 .IR execvp (2)
 system call.  If the element contains shell metacharacters then the entire
 element is executed using
@@ -537,10 +537,6 @@ supersedes the default built-in pager command.)
 .RS 5
 This is the program used to automatically mail various messages
 and notifications.  It is used by
-.B conflict
-when using the
-.B \-mail
-option.  It is used by
 .B send
 to post failure notices.
 It is used to retrieve an external-body with access-type `mail-server'
@@ -594,12 +590,6 @@ to display message bodies (or message parts) of type text/plain.
 supersedes the default built-in pager command.)
 .RE
 .PP
-.BR mshproc :
-%bindir%/msh
-.RS 5
-Currently not used.
-.RE
-.PP
 .BR packproc :
 %bindir%/packf
 .RS 5
@@ -681,6 +671,27 @@ This is the program used by
 .B whatnow
 to determine to whom a message would be sent.
 .RE
+.SS "Profile Lookup"
+Some
+.B nmh
+programs will look in more than just the user's 
+.I \&.mh\(ruprofile
+for profile entries.  In particular, 
+.BR mhbuild ,
+.BR mhshow ,
+.BR mhstore ,
+and
+.BR mhn 
+will also all look in a file specified by a program-specific
+environment variable (see below), and after that in 
+the system-installed profile (%etcdir%/mhn.defaults).  (The
+.B mhfixmsg
+program is similar, but doesn't consult an environment variable.)
+The first match found for a particular component will be used,
+allowing user-supplied entries to override those that are system-supplied.
+A profile component with a blank value field will "hide" any later
+occurrences of the component, and will make the entry appear to be
+absent.
 .SS "Environment Variables"
 The operation of
 .B nmh