I am an idiot see below...

I just bought a new dalton with a 3w 150-qs on cans. the engine was upgraded with new case and pistons in janurary of this year. It has had 10 gallons through it since rebuild. It has the old style ignition and the titillison carb. It is on 3w cans, and running a fuchs 33x10 prop.
Today was my planned maiden. I copied the programming from the previous owner 9z--to--9z. I fueled her up and filpped and flipped and the engine would not fire choke on and off. Next I removed a spark plug to see if it was getting fire and it wasn't. I switched to the back up ignition and could not see it firing either. next i removed and cleaned the pick up assuming it was bad. I called a friend and he said you can not get a spark unless you flip the engine over I was just moving the magnet past the pickup. I watched the plug while a friend flipped and could not see a spark. so I cupped the plug in my hand to block out outside light and sure enough both ignitions was giving me a spark but I wasn't seeing it in the daylight. Felling stupid I put everything back together and noticed that the engine was not choking all the way. I had changed the choke from a switch to a slider and I had reduced the endpoints too much. DUGH...The previous owner told me I would need to tweak the needles because he had ran out of fuel at his last contest and switched from 40-1 penzoil(break-in) to 80-1 synthetic, and when he did this he tweaked the needles. Anyway the titilson did not have h and l lables like a warbro so when i tried to tweak the needle to set the high end 200rpm below peak i was tweaking the wrong needle and changed it a lot, a call to a friend tought me which needle was what. now i tweaked the other needle a little. Now the top end and idle was good but the transistion sucked. 2 hours later the transision was ok and the top and bottom end seemed ok so i decided to give it a try. With everything reassembled I took off but the engine was really bogged down. I landed and was only making 4100 rpm. Another Hour on the needles I gave up.
I think the progression of events, I got my needles all out of whack. Can somebody give me some advice on where to start the needles at and the best way to adjust them from there.

Frestrated,

Dan