Actually I am just waiting for Zen to see this - I have been posting about it for a while and I am not really in the mood to explain it to yet another person.
Hey, the point of this thread is to help each other out...if you only wanna talk to zen, email him and I'm sure he will get back to you when he can...maybe you can FaceTime or skype it out with him, in the meantime you can work with other people who may have more experience and knowledge to try and get to a solution....the advice here is free, so take a bunch of it and see what you wanna keep throw the rest out, it won't cost you anything....
On a side note if you really Zen's advice you should try and follow it, he built it with a hole that he wanted always open...you jammed a toothpick in it, I'm just saying its more than likely not the PV since all other people have made adjustments to get to happy vaping, that is unless you got the one and only runt of the litter...if you think that's the case you can always send it to OB, I'm sure he'll test it for ya.
Don't take this the wrong way, I wish you the best and a great vape, but It's a new device be patient and try a few things differently from what you are doing....give another one of Zen's wicks a shot...cut down variables and I'll bet u will have a lightbulb moment