[wp-hackers] WordPress 1.3 database question

[Randy Peterman]

Matt or whomever may be able to answer this,
At <http://wiki.wordpress.org/1.3/TableVariables/> I read that for 1.3 
there will be a table variable access change.  What does this mean for 
my WordPress statistics plugin's 
(<www.randypeterman.com/StatTraq/index.php/>) use of an extra table?  
For example my code currently uses
$tablestattraq = $table_prefix . 'stattraq';
and then I import the global variable from within the functions that 
need to access the table.

How will I add a table to the $wpdb object?  The fewer files I have to 
ask users to modify the better.

Thanks for any and all explanation,

Randy Peterman