Glad you found your airplane....I have enjoyed your write ups of the incident.......remember in post 14 you said yourself that we could say "I told you so".....with that I'd like to say I told you so.....You have been lucky so far that the damage hasn't been worse.....a testomony to your flying skills.......
Will you try and get with a local club and find an instructor? after all what's the worse thing that could happen...Crash perhaps......Good luck