Okay, have just finished reading that article and am now even more surprised and confused than ever.
Wow, I didn't know that there was an ancient planet (13 billion yrs old) discovered in 2003, orbiting a pulsar/binary system in 47 Tuc.
Gets more and more interesting...
http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/b1620-26.htm
Thanks to Ron for sending me this link- he was trying to help me out in my quest to better understand globular clusters.