The car did need the valve body upgrade and the tech said when they changed the EEPROM they noticed that no one had ever been in there and the car still had the original chip. Apparently the required chip mapped to the upgrade is dependent on the trans serial number and mine was just past the first cutoff so he sent it back and got the correct one. The car runs great and the upgrade appears to have eliminated the rough 3-4 shift, although I will not say that with certainty until we get a cool night. It never was particularly harsh in warm weather but it is noticeably improved.
No metal in the pan and the tech said everything looked fine in there. All in all, it could have been worse.
The stone age didn't end for a lack of stones. Neither will the hydrocarbon age......