Thanks Joe,

I did take it out today and tested it after I loosened up all the ball links. That made a huge difference and it felt a lot better. Not perfect yet though. I can see how better servos would improve flight characteristics. Especially on the tail becasue it is slow to catch up with rotor tourque when it is applied and it rotates a fair bit when I increase tourque. I only have the gy240 and as I understand a digital servo won't work with it.
On a completely different issue. Nearing the end of my battery today I hammered the throttle to full for a second to see how well it would climb and it got up to about 40 ft or so and the motor shut right down and it came falling out of the sky. it landed on the asphalt and both skids broke off and that was it, no other damage. I unplugged the battery and spun it up (in hand) when I got home and everything worked fine. What could have caused this? I am guessing the esc shut down for some reason.
I was using my 1800mah 10c lipo and it was getting close to dying, but the esc hadn't slowed it down yet or at least I don't think it had. Any ideas?

Larry