Found the article I was thinking of in case anybody is interested. It is from 2003:
http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.ph...v2&id=439&c=18
I think definitely they did not want her to leave in 1997.. there was probably some question whether they could have even gone on without her initially. Personally, they're better with her in my opinion, so I think it's great that it looks like she's in.