Thanx for that page Mark - I'll have to start wading thru it when I have a bit of time.
The position that you describe above is about where I am now. It gives me a good angle for my picking hand and I don't have to wrench my fretting wrist around too bad. The problem I have tho is that the guitar neck drops every time I go to move up the neck, and the whole thing tends to slide down my lap. That's where the "not drop the blasted thing" came from earlier. Would a neck strap cure that?