Welcome back- You're not stuck anywhere between rocks and stuff- keep charging with it. Buy your wife a shop manual to study, too.

What did they mean to "keep the intake alone"? I think you meant "leave" them alone??? 0.060 is your current status quo with the cylinders...staying 0.060; what size hone did they say get?
Usually shops would do some magnetic particle testing on the cylinder head ("magnafluxing") to check for cracks... they did this, right?
Brad