Needed printings count is down to 26 this evening thanks to a couple helpful individuals.  Namely "pickle.69" from the Magic Library Forums and Paulo Sureck who responded to one of my Brazillian eBay feelers...

Paulo is sending me a couple Portuguese stonies out of his collection (8th Ed Foil, and nonfoil CK) at a very reasonable price.  Thanks Paulo!

The other night I found a web-based storefront for a German trading card store (www.trader-online.de), and in checking their inventory for Steinhagel, I found that they had FOUR of the five German printings I needed.  But their website was in German and didn't seem to provide any "English version" link.  And they didn't respond to my e-mails.  So I concluded that they didn't do business outside of the country, and possibly didn't read English.  So I posted a thread on the Magic Library forums seeking help from MTG collectors who live in Germany.  Pickle.69 was nice enough to respond, and ordered the cards I wanted (sending me the receipt as proof).

So now the list of German needs drops from 5 to 1, just like that!  Thanks Pickle.69!