LOL... Please don't take me wrong Stev32K, I am by no means laughing at you and your difficulties. But, your story reminded me of a good friend of mine's stories when he first got his LEE R1000 progressive press. It gave him fits... He threatened to actually shoot the press. (He's the type that may have done it too) Long story short, I now own all his reloading equipment, because he just got so fed up with it, it was no longer fun for him to do reloading.
He called the other night and asked if I was pulling my hair out yet, and I said no (while knocking on wood frantically) He asked me how I was able to stand it, and my answer was... I have just basically had to accept that the press was junk (built to low price standards) and part of the hobby of reloading, was repairing the press as well...
I'm still very very new to reloading myself, but I can see where if someone wanted to buy a press and turn out large quantities of quality ammo, it could get very frustrating very fast.