Decided to rework the design of the octahedron, so that it *should* 
allow me to do this:

#declare octoside = {blah}

union {
  object {octoside
          rotate <0,90,0>}
  ...
}

and get the result I want. The problem is, this is as far as I got:

camera{
        orthographic
        location <0,sqrt(2)/2,-3> look_at <0,sqrt(2)/2,0> angle 60
        right x up y
}

light_source{<5,5,-10>,1.5}

//intersection {
  union {
    sphere {<-1,0,0>,0.075}
    sphere {<1,0,0>,0.075}
    sphere {<0,sqrt(2),0>,0.075}
    cylinder {<-1,0,0>,<1,0,0>,0.075}
    cylinder {<0,sqrt(2),0>,<1,0,0>,0.075}
    cylinder {<-1,0,0>,<0,sqrt(2),0>,0.075}
    texture {
      pigment {rgb <1,1,1>}
    }
    //triangle {<-1,0,-0.075>,<0,sqrt(2),-0.075>,<1,0,-0.075>}
    //triangle {<-1,0,0.075>,<0,sqrt(2),0.075>,<1,0,0.075>}
  //rotate <45,0,0> <- test purposes, move to last statement in final 
object, with translate.
  //translate <0,0,-1>
  }
//  box {<-1,0,-0.075>,<1,sqrt(2),0.075>}
//
//}

Neeless to say, since the original used intersection, I took a chance on 
that working. It didn't. The **best** solution would be if I could tie 
triangles to the center points and weld them to the main object, to 
produce a solid, or at least one solid enough to cut sections out of and 
have material left behind, instead of a hollow shell with a hole in it. 
It only get worse if I want to late make a crystal version, or some 
other such thing, where the entire inside has to be solid, instead of it 
being hollow. There has got to be some means I can fill in the sides, 
like I want, and also the rest of the interior of the final object. I am 
just not seeing it at the moment. And, if its something blindingly 
obvious, like using triangles some how, then I can even set the exact 
points I want, instead of using the 45 degree angle trick and computing 
the sqrt(2) length for the side being rotated into place. Can't imaging 
why I didn't try something like this before... lol Might have been 
easier to model this bloody thing as a patch.

-- 
void main () {

    if version = "Vista" {
      call slow_by_half();
      call DRM_everything();
    }
    call functional_code();
  }
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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