I know RTFM, but why?

[Jumper]

WRITE to the internal EE2 does not support writing of word sized variables to the EE2 so you have to write them as you do, byte-wise as you do in your code and then you just decide what way to store them. My problem is that I2CREAD and I2CWRITE will put the HB and LB as HB-LB if i write a single word but as LB-HB if I use the STR modifier for the same commands. Of course i can in the same way as you do switch HB and LB before using a single word read or write BUT why does PBP have this feature. Since someone put it there it must be reason for storing variables as "this order is different than the way variables are normally stored" the manual sais.
Is it possible to "HACK" the I2C commands to make them store variables in the same way? I might guess a HB and LB mixup in your fail-safe RC would create some big surprises for the pilot.

Using the page (STR) mode when writing large amounts of data saves tons of time. Writing 64 words, word by word with a 5 ms delay would take 320ms compared to 5ms if you write one page at the time (24LC512) and we all hate to wait :-)