The blessing in disguise of having gone through the October 2003 gear collapse, is that I am much more confident about the airframe than ever before. In going through the plane with a fine tooth coomb, at least one airframe irregularity that had never been entered into the logs and not repaired properly was discovered. Hey, things were done differently way back when. There was further undetected damage not related to the gear collapse that was repaired with a FAA field enginering approval. All of that work (to the tune of $17,000) was properly documented and properly repaired. Ignorance may have been bliss, but it did not change reality. The reality now is that I fly this airplane with a great deal of confidence.