A little off topic, but I wanted to put in my input before I forgot.
In regards to the Charine/Janine comment.. Did anyone ever think that perhaps Koga has more than one daughter? If you actually look at it, Charine has brown hair, and is fairly young. Janine had black hair, and since Gold and Silver took place three years after Red and Blue, Charine seems much too young to have become a gym leader in only 3 years. Isn't it possible that Janine is off training on her own somewhere?