Finished cleaning up the code and added a proper set of unit tests for it (using the CxxTest unit-testing framework). Download glutty_vector-0.91.zip here, or view the latest source online here!
Now to resume my regular programming and put this new class into use!
Update:
I think I have figured out how to safely remove the virtual destructor. The size of the class is purely just the array of elements now. i.e., A 2D vector of 4-byte floats will be exactly 8 bytes in size (assuming no padding). New download is
glutty_vector-0.92.zip.