G'Day Perthsnooper,
As much as I support Solbec and continue to hold for the longer term, it sort of looks as though your fly on the wall has been swatted. If there was a shread of truth regarding the buyout at 6 times current value the buyer depth (on the options at least) wouldn't be looking so thin.
You could still well be proven right but the market is telling me a different story to the one I've been reading here.