content access

I'm hoping some local colleagues (and more skilled developers) can offer some advice on this problem.

Have any of you run across this problem: "Search does not index comments subject to node access" https://www.drupal.org/node/1396534.

There is a patch that seems to work--at least it resolved the problem on my Drupal 7 site. But this seems like a big enough problem that it's surprising there isn't more talk about it online, and that the patch hasn't been incorporated into an update. Is there some more obvious fix that I'm overlooking?

I have the need for a site where I can define access to individual nodes by user. In this scenario, access by permission or roles is not finite enough. Node_Access has this ability. But when I want to create a view to display the node available to a given user, View's Access setting overrides the permission and roles settings in Node_Access. There is a similar module, Content Access that tries to solve a similar problem.

I created a list of content permission modules that I have encountered with their weights on my system.

1. Can we create a comprehensive list?
2. How can they work together or should they. From your experience, what has been the worst and best combinations ?
3. what effect does module weight have on implementation of access? is it true that if access is already granted, it will not be restricted by another module that comes into play later?

Weight/ Name/ Version/ Brief description

0 Content Permissions 6.x-2.x-dev Set field-level permissions for CCK fields.
(admin determines)