Solid tests, nice efforts. But you could just ask before, this game is old and most of questions have already been answered.

See :

http://wiki.theamazonbasin.com/index.php/Aura_When_Equipped

Fundamental 1.10 change : synergies :
http://wiki.theamazonbasin.com/index.php/1.10
http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/skills/basics.shtml

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=51808592&f=87

Thanks dude, and yeah you're right. All of this information is available on the web.

The problem is: many of those unofficial sites tend to contain a great deal of misinformation. Multiple sites I visited claimed that "+x to all skills" attributes from items do increase passive aura damage, which I now know is wrong.

No CBF/10