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Yes, certainly there are different relevant counterfactuals depending on every other free action that impinges on Eric's actions in the pet shop. Since there are an awful lot of such counterfactuals (for example, just about every single one dealing with actions more than 100 years before Eric goes into the pet shop), it's a lot simpler to just look at the one.
I think you mean discrete, but minor grammatical points aside, I'm not sure I see your point. This view involves viewing a portion of reality discretely, but that's just because it's a point about human activity, which necessarily needs to involve the discrete unit of an individual person. Exactly how people exist, this view doesn't, as far as I can see, say anything about.
Just to make a quick point, that's probably obvious, this view assumes the existence of free will and providence (part of providence being 'pre-destination'), since it's an attempt to reconcile them.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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