No problem 50nickles, and no the weights should not cause any ill effects besides making the cyclic control different. I for one have had my weights removed for sometime now, and fly it fine. hopefully futura will let me try out his bell hiller head (it would be appreciated). as far as the glitching problem, the only thing i know about that is the blade will have glitching problems if you are running a 3cell lipo on a 10 tooth pinion. or you could invest in a hobbico frequency scanner, just to make sure there is no interference.