You are right, Teker, the problem with robes hasn't been solved. My main robe still sits in my inv, when it has extra heavy items in it (not corpses).
Maybe if player corpses wouldn't count for items/weight, it'd help with CRs. Though I see people with necro high in their classo use embalmed player corpses as containers.
I guess you are right, recalling corpses would work better.