You make some good points, Darcy. I think the difference between getting advice on TE and at an LBS is that I knew going into it that advice from TE would be subjective and have many variables. I wasn't quite as prepared for how much the advice from the different LBSes and even different people at the same LBS would vary.

You're also very right about the fact that I may not have enough time on my saddle to know how comfortable it is; I just know that it was automatically more comfortable than the one that came on my hybrid so that was an automatic improvement.

As for riding for hours -- that's probably an entirely new thread! Because I do have questions about that.