Ok everyone, thanks for reading and emailing me.
It's too bad that I never got to meet any of you to race with in person. That was the biggest part of me fading out of the scene here online when I did.

I have received payment and shipped the Bits to their new owner. I hope she enjoys them as much as I have.

A few things have surprised me through this exercise.
1) There is a definite rift in the micro r/c world and I don't see this as a healty thing. I was shocked to find any mention of another micro r/c forum blotted out of my posts. I thought the whole point of these forums was to get to know other people and share ideas. It doesn't make sense to me to not be able to link to a discussion going on in another forum to share the ideas going on there. It's not like the forums are making money from this.

2) There are a lot of people who aren't polite enough to read a post before responding with posts or emails. I worked out the details quite thoroughly in my second post and still had people that didn't respect the way I was running things.

3) In spite of the ugly bits mentioned above, there are also a number of people who are quite supportive and helpful to whom I wish all the best in the world.

Thanks for letting me take up the bandwidth for a while.