After an extended purchase process (several weeks of negotiation, matching schedules, flying half way across the country, dealing with the worst pre-buy inspection ever, closing, training, flying back from TX to MD) I got'er home.     The pre-buy inspection failed to identify a long list of items that required maintenance (one of which was a major airworthiness issue).  So immediately after returning to MD, I took the plane in to my local service center to get the needed work done.  To my surp