Thanks for the sentiment but I'm not discouraged at all, everything is fine now and I'm doing everything I want and need to, and it's working great and looking groovy.
I've played around with Zbrush a fair amount and I fairly understand what can be done with it but I won't be going that route anytime soon. It's fun to think about, (all those cool zspheres and displacement modeling tricks, etc) but I know it ain't gonna happen, ha ha!