Shinra, tricky person.

[DLLS]

I found a site related to this subject.............

http://www.willamette.edu/~ejohnson/intro.htm

It gives evidence on how the Final Fantasy VII and X worlds are connected and theories. I found it quite unteresting.

[Renmiri]

Yes and according to my Japanese speaking FF guru at Wikipedia the same stuff that Nojima said in 2003 about FFX-2 is repeated on the FFVII Ultimania manual two years later