Zope: Adding a layer causes valid output to become an object reference?

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I've been playing with Zope for about a year and took the plunge last
week into making a product.

To keep it [arguably] simple I used a ZClass to wrap an external
method.  My ZClass works and returns the output I expect.

What doesn't work is when I refer to an object I've created from a
dtml-var or a tal:content or tal:replace statement.  Instead of the
proper output I receive: <TextileClass at home> where TextileClass is
my class name and home is the Object ID I'm referencing.  The fact that
the < and > surround the output make it invisible in the browser and
had me chasing ghosts for a while.  I'd bet I'm not groking something
here.

So if I call /home I get the proper HTML output: "<b>What I am looking
for</b>" but when in another object I reference <dtml-var home> I get:
"<TextileClass at home>".

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Mike

PS: Yes it is a wrapper for Textile ver 2 and I plan on publishing it.
It is however limited to Zope 2.7+ due to the implementation of Textile
requiring Python 2.3