It would seem that the "solid research" you are all referring to....... is to this site's 'comments' and 'forums', which amounts to little more than gossip...??
G-STRX, unfortunately for you and all those others in your position, what you refer to as "little more than gossip" was, of course, actually the truth.
Your anger and dismay is understandable (I would be very angry, too) but you are directing your anger at the wrong people. The more experienced folk here would have given you the truth, but you didn't, and still don't, seem to want to accept it.