Imageer,

Like PositivelyListening, I think if you can talk about this in person it will help more in the long run. The whole e-mail thing for problem solving gets annoying (at least for me). I'd rather be face to face. After all only 7% of a convo is verbal. You are already being nice and generous here, so just continue that. I would stay away from the R talks though, tempting as it is.

Good luck.