possibly some may treat it as a repository of relative safety in a bear market stoked by deteriorating economic fundamentals and geopolitical concerns.

Here are the number of posts on PRPFX on these boards for each year:

2000: 0
2001: 0
2002: 3
2003: 13
2004: 128
2005: 84
2006: 66
2007: 161
2008 (so far): 498

Note the absence of "repository"-seeking investors in 2000-2002, which was the best time to have been in this fund.  The number of posts simply goes up when the fund is doing well over a trailing short-term time period.  This is nothing more than performance-chasing at its worst. 

Best,
Oildog