I haven't read the whole thread but it's worth a mention that if you follow the approach lights you will not land on the numbers.
You will land in the touchdown zone, some way down the runway.
To land on the numbers, the approach lights will be all four red for quite a while.
Negative. If I bother to glance at them, I see 'all whites'.
Here's a (quite low for me) approach into EGGP:
