As an addendum to my last thought, I have just lately become more and more aware (why it took this long, I have no idea!) to some of the people who are making the utmost-highest quality after-market strings for incredibly reasonable prices.

I've heard rave reviews about our own Gibblet on here... When you need to replace those strings on that XT, I'd definitely look him up... probably offer you a far more superior string for lessmoney thanan OEM replacement, and wouldeven give you a choice of colors. Put a silver/tan combination together with that Realtree HardwoodsHD pattern, and it looks awesome!