Thank you guys for the support, it is greatly appreciated. Posting has allowed me to keep my sanity through this ordeal. I know in the big picture they are just speakers, but we live in an apartment, and as such we spend a great deal of time in one room, the living room. It sucks having just one speaker to stare at/listen to for so long when you paid for two. Maybe some day I will look back at this and wonder why I got so upset. But for now, I am, and I don't feel like 'eating it'. Anyway, I digress, thanks again for the comments, and thanks for the other forum addresses. I will have my story posted there forthwith.