Wow! What a post. I would like to sincerly Thank You for your Insight Windcatcher! I always pictured the average VI GM job was filled by people with profound inferority complex. That is how they always came off to me. I do remember some odd things though, The GM that gave my main his surname was fired a couple of weeks later for dueling Players in the arena at a friend of mine's guild meeting. He was the coolest one I ever talked with so I was pretty disappointed about it.
Your memory of past-sunup raids scares me because I.. for whatever reason, didn't stop playing after that. Being a nice guy was a bad combo for the addiction too - I often would be ready to camp at 2:00am and have some random player beg for a cr and summons. 4 hours and 12 coffins later, I would get maybe 2 hrs of sleep before work. Woohoo!
Thanks again for the great reply and for clearing that up for me.
