Nate, you're pretty much in the same boat as me, and as such, my comments arent directed towards you.

JT, don't take it too personally. I think you misunderstood what I said. For starters, Lee himself said JKD wasn't a style of martial arts, it's a theory. How can you practice a theory like that? Simply use what works, and don't use what doesn't. JKD is going to be different for every person. If I can punch through a steel wall, and you can kick faster than I can blink, I think "what works" is going to be different for us. This isn't to say what you learned isn't efficient or effective, but it isn't JKD...it's the art of fighting like Bruce Lee (i.e. essentially Wing Chun and Boxing with some Gung Fu....which is, as I said, mixed martial arts).