a65l,
I'm am by no means trying to down play your experience but if a plane has a very bad tendency to ground loop, it's either not set up correctly or it's pilot error. Bottom line is, there is a reason the plane is ground looping. Jamming the throttle to full with full rudder is not the answer. I'll bet if you would have re-mounted the engine with some right thrust the problem would have subsided. A good tail wheel helps too. The gear needs to be aligned so the plane rolls straight on a hard level surface without the engine running.

spawnxx2k,
Set up your transmitter with dual rates and set them where the manual suggests. Definitely fly with the low rate settings for the first time and if for some reason you need more throw once it is in the air you can simply flip to high rates. Don't be too quick to use high rates though, that plane should fly just fine with low rates as long as you don't do anything drastic. I'm not saying the SG SW is not a good plane but one thing you'll learn about magazine reviews is that they never say any plane is bad.