My humblest thanks again to StanF18, and now to JCL, vinuneuro, and bimmer! Very nice of you all! This is all great information and all I can say is "the more the better". If I can continue to walk in the door at the dealer and have possible fixes, I am all for it. Everything you guys suggest, I keep and take with me each time. Of course, each suggestion is met with, "...you have a different engine... that would have shown up on the diagnostic... we checked that..." etc. etc. Do we feel that it is 'us against them'? I don't mean to, but it's getting there.

I should clarify: my service advisor and service tech have been very nice and I don't get a bad vibe from them... yet... so I am trying to remain open minded and do what I can to get my car running better.

Also, that idle adjustment they made last week (from a .2 to a .8 - or something like that)? TERRIBLE! The throttle cannot seem to find it's place and I end up bucking down the road or away from stop lights. SO... back to the previous settings.

My plan is to take all these suggestions and any others, and when I go in on Monday, have a new list ready.

Keep em coming, friends, if anyone thinks of anything else. As always, I'll keep posting outcomes and changes in an effort to help anyone else to avoid these same problems.

Sid