Well, after eight pages and a lot of reading this post has finally come back to where it started - namely whether or not the A380 will be overweight.
I have just read a quote from Mike Blair in the Flight International edition for 3-9 August. There are two interesting quotes in fact. The first stated that "We are a little overweight, although less so than we were on the 777 at this point." I do not recall anybody leaping into print to knock that product , or the 7E7 for that matter, on the basis of its weight.
The second quote was a little revealing when he said of the 7E7, "All delivery positions through 2009 are committed, as is 80% of 2010. We're looking a little light on customers in the USA. At some point the US carriers are going to wake up to the 7E7 and we're going to have to tell them that we don't have any aircraft available." This is NOT meant as a dig against Boeing or the 7E7, merely a comment on the apparent lack of support for an American product from American airlines.