how's it working out for ya? It sucks you've had so many problems with your set, mine has been great so far.
When I was back home, I visited a friend who had just gotten a pioneer plasma, he said he calibrated it, but it looked like it was still in torch mode from the factory. So I messed with it a little and still couldn't get it to look better. After watching a couple of movies on his, I'm very happy I went with the DLP, it looks 100% better.