re: 8^) I was SO hoping you would show up!
Here are three peer reviewed papers for your consideration:
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510001
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0511379
http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0511051
The last two papers also cite a paper from Heliosiesmology that DOES support our model, and in fact confirmed the existence of a stratified layer at .995R, or just under the visible photosphere.
Here is the paper from Stanford:
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510111
Here's a NON peer reviewed presentation of just the satellite evidence is more of a simplified form:
http://www.thesurfaceofthesun.com/TheSurfaceOfTheSun.pdf