You 'Globular fanatics' are an impressive and erudite bunch!
( I am always very impressed by knowledgable 'astro dudes'.)
It is possible to find a mega summary of the current state of Star Cluster research in
IAU Symposium 266, "Star Clusters : Basic Galactic building blocks throughout time and space".
I know that Dana loves to really get deep into the intricate details of this sort of stuff!
It is not necessary to pay a King's Ransom for the paper version of this symposium write-up. The papers can be freely accessed at:
http://journals.cambridge.org/IAU
The proceedings of IAU meetings are one of the best ways to find out the latest information about most every aspect of scientific astronomy, and their access policy for online papers is remarkably liberal.
cheers,
Robert