No worries, I figured A-String would recognize me. I feel bad he had all this trouble with something he bought from us. It went though a long, public route to get back to me so I could fix it. First I heard of it was a call from our Canadian rep to make sure he got his money back. I'm pretty sure he had just heard of it as well.
As a PSA, many MI companies are much smaller than you expect and populated by engineers, designers and sales/manufacturing folk. Sometimes, they just aren't set up to provide the level of customer service we expect with professional call centres, technical support, teams answering emails...I've heard it all about pretty much every company at some point. Not that I'm excusing or defending poor customer service, just offering my view of why it happens. If you have a problem with something you purchased I'd suggest you start at the store, then work your way up. YMMV, not all stores are a cool as mine.
Cheers all!