More Ididit news... (or should we call it a "Davedidit Column"?)
Dave came by tonight for a couple hours and after much thought, assembly, disassembly and gnashing of teeth, took his grinder to what was left of the shaft from the steering box
I'm happy to say that everything that came before the grinding was not in vain, and that the borgeson adapter from the Ididit column to the steering column shaft went in perfectly (and straight even... cool)!
This is great news 'cuz it means tomorrow and over the long weekend I can install the column floor mount, a reinforcement under the dash and the column drop and mount them permanently...
One more hurdle out of the way and then on to installing the wiring harness!
Thanks again to everyone for their suggestions and of course to Mark for cutting the old column free and Dave for making the new one work...
~Trev