Gosh, let's see... I'm sure I was reading an article on this... I'll try to find it.

Honestly, I don't think it's an issue. Whenever there is a discussion on cypress the spore issue seems to come up, but there are so many people out there who use it, I don't believe it's a big worry.

And yes, baking it at 200* for a few hours would do it.

Okay, here's a discussion on RTB.com on cypress.
http://www.redtailboa.net/forums/boa...cypress+spores

http://www.redtailboa.net/forums/boa...cypress+spores

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...cypress+spores

Really, it doesn't seem that anybody has very much info on it. There are so many areas of reptile keeping where absolutely NO research has been done. We need some biologists looking into this stuff.