To All,
Thankyou for your sharing your opinions and suggestions, as hard as some of them were to swallow. I have written to Christoph suggesting that we agree to disagree (we are both right, we are both wrong, we are both in a no-win situation) and to put the dispute behind us and to move on.

As for me, I have learned a valuable lesson here: that what should be a private dispute can so easily be made public and then get out of control. Comments, accusations, etc. once made can not be retracted or deleted. The internet, its openess, its lack of censorship and accountability, and the ease with which one can make stuff public, can be both good and bad.

Up until now, I have very little involvement in message boards, forums, and the like. So, now that I have experienced first hand how message threads can go, this "experience" will be helpful when I am participating in the new forum/message board that we have just launched at our web site.
Rob