TAB,
Sounds like you've already arrived at Option 3. Time to move out of CA anyway, so do it and forget your options. But remember the lesson about Diogenes searching in the dark for an honest man...someone stole his lamp! Would I, in your shoes, follow my advice? No way...I'm a hay-wop. I'd get even. So you shouldn't be as unwise as I am; head for AZ or WY. Good luck