The shareholder list provided by First Global dated January 13, 2005 is nearly 3,000 pages in length and contains over 17,000 accounts. This cert list shows that 501 billion shares are represented as “active certs”.
Well, there's your answer, though you apparently don't want to see it. Somewhere between 17,000 and 18,000 accounts. Only 501 billion shares in active certs. That figure, of course, includes the CEDE cert.
You lose, Jimmy. Game over.