I'm going to put it on jack stands and pull the front drive shaft out tonight.

Options:
1. I sent racemalibu572 an email and he is still modifying drive shafts.
2. I looked at Cobra Transmissions too. The nice thing here is I can get that drive shaft in my hands this weekend to fix it.
3. eBay has good looking prices, but unsure of quality. Honestly, I was looking to get a new vehicle in the fall and dump the X5, so maybe the eBay option will last me 6 months (4K miles). I could at leat drive it to teh dealer and take a low ball trade on it if I wanted to.

I'm not looking to do the transfer case maintenance, becuase I dont plan on keeping it that much longer. There is a long list of other issues that I'm just not going to put the time and money into anymore.