I'm on my way for a 3rd party consult...w/a surgeon who is not an ace, but who is personable and able to actually talk to a patient (not common among surgeons in my experience). Thanks very much for all your input, Gargolye, really apprciated actual names to research and ask questions about. Don't know that I can wait 18 months but that would produce vastly better results I could try. One thing I've learned so far is that if you are young enuf to possibly need another hip replacement, then the pressure fit type is preferable.

Don...Since I am old enough to have been hep when it was hip to be hep, maybe a hep replacement is in order...retro is in!