Initialization of new Datablock type and "Couldn't find class rep for dynamic class"

I posted some of this in a TGE thread accidentally, so please forgive the partial re-post.

This thread addresses the issue of the warn assert "Couldn't find class rep for dynamic class", and the corresponding failure of a custom con-object class to work in T3D...

I created 3 classes that subclass from various (one from Player, one from GameBase, one from ShapeBase). Now I'm trying to use these classes in script, with corresponding datablock types. All 3 have DECLARE_CONOBJECT AND IMPLEMENT_CO_NETOBJECT_V1. Their datablocks have DECLARE_CONOBJECT and IMPLEMENT_CO_DATABLOCK_V1.

Everything builds fine, but - running from Torsion - I get a "Warning - Couldn't find class rep for dynamic class:" and "Unable to instantiate non-conobject class ___." assert in the console for each of the 3 classes and their datablock types.

Running in VS2005, in AbstractClassRep::create, which contains the assert "Couldn't find class rep...", the rep IS actually being found and returned and instantiated (woohoo, I learned something about how the conobjects get instantiated!)

i.e. rep is non null and rep->create() succeeds in AbstractClassRep::create

const AbstractClassRep *rep = AbstractClassRep::findClassRep(in_pClassName);
   if(rep)
      return rep->create();

So, from this I get:

(1) Running from Torsion, the rep must be coming back NULL, hence the assert being thrown

(2) Regardless of what Torsion is doing (seems like a bug in Torsion), my real problem is that the datablocks aren't being initialized with the values that are in the script.


So my new question is:

How do datablocks get initialized with the values set in the scripts? If I look at PlayerData for instance, the only place I see values coming in is in unpackData. As far as I can tell, the only method getting called on my datablock objects is the ctor, so the values set in script never make it in.