Hmmm lets see!

Ok, I think you mean doing this....

I got that by selecting all the tris at the top and pressing J. Then I tried doin the radiosity solution again, with the same settings as before and got this....

Fixed! You are a genius haloedrain. For kicks, right before I go to bed, I wanted to try an icosphere with a subdivision of 4.

Still a nice smooth result, probably because of the high subdivision, i dunno. These are all screen captures from the 3D view, I haven't gotten into the Radiosity rendering yet. The controls seem a little more sparse there, and I see nothing about Patches and Elements. Im pretty sure Silgrin was using the Radiosity during render anyway, which was the whole point of this thread, lol, so all this is prolly no use to him. I will check that out next, if my interest holds, and if noone else beats me to it :)