Jeff, do you have any pics of the rear main seal you could point to so I can see what this rascal actually looks like?
In my nightmares, the rear main seal is about six feet tall and it spews oil out on everything around it and I drown in a pool of hot engine oil as my wife says, "I told you that car was going to be the death of you!"
Now I'm gonna have intermediate shaft failure nightmares too.