hentown, please do consider this in the spirit of the "High Road" ... Do you know why people start threads like "I bought this XYZ equipment and I can't get it to work properly"?
Because for whatever reason, they already bought the equipment and now they are asking for our assistance. Simply posting that they should have bought another brand press as a solution is like telling someone with a flat tire they should have bought a different brand tire - absolutely no help to the person with the flat tire get back on the road.
Your experience with Lee presses may have indeed been negative and I am sorry to hear that. However, there are many of us who overcame the issues that are inherent to Lee Pro 1000 and successfully use them on an ongoing basis.
Public forums like THR exist so helpful information can be shared on the wonderful network called the "internet" and support threads like the
Pro 1000 Problems/Solutions exist to help others overcome the same issues we have learned to resolve.
Imagine a new user of Dillon press posting the problem of powder measure drifting and the reply was, "If you bought a Lee press, fixed volumetric Pro Auto Disk powder measure won't drift." How would that reply help the Dillon press user? No, it would absolutely not help. Instead, another Dillon user suggesting to check powder measure drops every 50-100 cycles will.
Peace.