throwanay1

Thanks for this. I'll definitely start with b) and c) I really want to help the company but a) is more complicated since it bothers me to know that I just potentially introduced another set of bugs by not addressing the underlying issues.

No, there is no lead programmer and the founder isn't technical. I'm the only person here who actually understands software engineering. I have to write long essays and letters to explain why things aren't the way they should be and I often have to lecture the other developers on what I mean by O(nlogn) vs O(n^2), ftp vs version control, spread sheet vs bug tracking system, project manager vs supervisor, sys admin vs phpmyadmin user.