This post is meant to respond to you without further derailing consig's thread. Where, by the way, your continued interuption is incredibly ungentlemanly, though it is a habit you seem to have.
First, let's get something straight. I wish you would stop pretending that you post as a pro-Mormon for any other reason than you were not accepted by the ex-Mormon crowd and felt picked on because of it. There is nothing more to your posting than Buddy Pine - Syndrome. You remember that thread back in September about rfm? Yeah. So do I.
So, as to the witnesses deserving some primary role in determining the truth claims of the Book of Mormon, I offer you the words of none other than Joseph Smith himself -
"I now left David and Oliver, and went in pursuit of Martin Harris, who I found at a considerable distance fervently engaged in prayer; he soon told me however that he had not yet prevailed with the Lord, and earnestly requested me, to join him in prayer, that he also might realize the same blessings which we had just recieved: we accordingly joined in prayer, and ultimately obtained our desires, for before we had yet finished, the same vision was opened to our view; at least it was again to me, and I once more beheld, and seen, and heard the same things; whilst at the same moment, Martin Harris cried out, apparently in an ecstasy of Joy “’Tis enough, ’tis enough; mine eyes have beheld, mine eyes have beheld”, and jumping up he shouted, Hosanna, blessing God; and otherwise rejoiced exceedingly."
Think about that one for a while. Joseph almost tells us straight-forwardly in his own history that the events the witnesses saw were - wait for it - IN THEIR OWN BLEEDING MINDS! When multiple members of the three witnesses later made statements about seeing the visions with their spiritual eyes, it corresponds well with Joseph's own way of describing the event. What's that you say? They all rejected that claim and made additional statements to the effect they saw the vision as clearly and surely as they could see a table or other object in front of them and their interviewer? So what? Now we have conflicting accounts and the account of Joseph above seems to support the accounts that they did not see a physical object in front of them.
They aren't primary to determining if the Book of Mormon is a true account of an ancient people. Plain and simple. If you really believed it yourself, your own life would reflect it better. Clearly, you yourself see it as a form of allegory or a nice idea.