1. According to some of the explanations given on your Insights page, the Vav of Gachon should still not be 5,000 letters away from being the middle of the Torah. Also, the number of verses still seems to be off (given the apparent Pshat of the Gemarra). Also, apparently according to the Chasam Sofer (tshuvos to Orach Chayim, siman 52), because of some of these problems, a sofer does not make a bracha while writing a sefer torah.

2. Rambam's Principle #8 states we have the same (written & oral) Torah that was given to Moshe Rabeinu. However as your Insights Page mentions, there are/have been SOME variations among Sefer Torahs (e.g., Yemenite, etc.) According to the Yerushalmi, Taanit 4:2, Sefer Torahs were found, with some discrepancies, and they used the rule of Majority (2 out of 3) to determine what to use going forward. Given this, and other discrepancies, can we say for certain that Rambam's Principle #8 is accurate? (This principle of the Rambam is often quoted to Baalei Teshuvot; perhaps this practice should be amended.)

Below is a list of online references I found on the topic:

1. http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/StatSci/anon_middle.pdf (Ramah, Shagas Aryeh, etc.)

2. http://www.aishdas.org/toratemet/en_pamphlet9.html

3. http://www.ottmall.com/mj_ht_arch/v6/mj_v6i23.html#CEX (mentions Chasam Sofer, Pnei Yehoshua, R. Hai Gaon)

4. http://ottmall.com/mj_ht_arch/v34/mj_v34i40.html#CMM (# of verses in the Torah-- off??

5. http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/opinions/cohen_codes_1.html (Ramah, etc.,)

6. http://www.torah-code.org/controversy/THE_ACCURACY_OF_OUR_WRITTEN_TORAH.pdf (Yerushalmi Taanit 4:2 -- variant texts found, majority 2/3 used for determination)

7. http://www.hakirah.org/Vol%205%20Epstein.pdf (changes in S.Torah, Ktav, Rollers, etc,)

8. http://www.talkreason.org/articles/list.cfm#top (lots of variant texts/spellings)

9. http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol04/v04n479.shtml#14 (references as listed by A. Kaplan)

10. http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/codes/StatSci/middle_english.pdf (R. Tam; Ramah & R. Yom Tov Lippman, on no good mesorahs.

11. http://tblong.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_archive.html (Talmudic quotations of Torah not consistent with our Sefer Torahs; Radak on Kri/Ktiv)

All the best regards from Galus and Thank you for Your Time!!!!

Mechael , Los Angeles, USA