Yup, the FED books have been a mess for years, no doubt about it.
Get over it! 
We hear the same complaints every year (matter of fact, I recall complaining my first year, eons ago). You are going to find that things are run differently from State to State (Remember the "gorilla arm" arguments last year?) and it is all due to the fact that the FED takes too long to finish up their work, rush to get everything printed and don't proof-read anything.
So what do you do? Listen to
your rules interpreter and save the arguments for the Internet. Get the new BRD (if it ever gets here) and that usually clears up most of the mess.
Also, and probably the most important if you are new to the FED,
never look at FED rules through OBR eyes! Keep the two separate and you will be just fine.
Now, was that set, hand to mouth, wipe or was it hand to mouth, wipe, set?