You got a good price, the best I found at CIrcuit City, good guys and Best Buy was closer to 1900, which is what CC has it for now on sale.
I recently bought a TV and did all the legwork too. I came down to about 4 decisions. The best TV picture IMHO is the Sony XBR(several guys here mentioned it). It's about 2199 and it never goes on sale. I looked at the set you bought but it was too big for my room and too out of my budget. I came down to the Sony 34 inch widescreen KV34HS420, and the Panasonic of the same size. Sony's picture was slightly better but I bought the panasonic because it was ~ 400 cheaper. I really love my tv.
The DLP's have a bulb that has to be replaced and the bulbs are VERY expensive. The estimates on bulb life vary wildly, if you read the online reviews on Circuit City's site you'll find several folks who had a bulb burn out just over 1 year after buying the set, and in many cases I think the warranty on the bulb is only 90 days. Now maybe only people with bad experiences post reports, I don't know, but that's what scared me off DLP.
I really like the LCD's, the tv Mike bought is not a "true" flat screen it's a 15" depth and that's why it's so affordable, the really flat flat screens that you can hang on a wall like a picture cost a lot more. Plasmas seem to be fading out, too noisy and too unreliable, LCD is definitely the better technology of the two IMHO.
I looked at the projector and screen approach too but where i wanted it in a corner a screen made no sense, I would have had to do it flat on one wall and that was the wrong viewing angle for much of the room.
