Style improvements to code; removing redundant Authoring and Publishing fields; removing 'required' validation on settings form. Thanks to dman and maijs for their work on these issues.
Please note that each content type now has its own setting for enabling form rearrangement. They are found at admin/settings/node-form-rearrange. Please check over these settings immediately after update to ensure continued function.
Thanks to a number of contributors on this release; Nick_vh for settings patch, TravisCarden for permissions patch.