Welcome to Steemit Michael! I haven't read all of it but this has got to be the longest original post on Steemit by far. Glad to have you here.

Because I think your account will become valuable fairly quickly, here's a couple security guides I wrote for users to securely post with their accounts and have safe offline backup just in case things go wrong:

• How to log in with your posting key (and why this is important)
• Your Steem account is worth money! How to secure it with a new owner key to keep it yours forever