Kon,
Congrats on your new purchase
One question about your collimation process - did you ONLY use a laser?
I ask as even if you had used other tools, there might be people reading this who may think that a laser will do it all and it's the only tool you will need.
A laser alone will not allow you to get the secondary mirror set properly.
The Astro Baby page you refer to is excellent because it describes the process needed to FIRST sort out the secondary BEFORE touching the primary mirror.
Get the secondary right from the start, and only then will the final tweeking of the primary will give you your best possible collimation and performance out of your Newt or dob.
I mention this for those people who may not be aware of the pitfalls that lasers alone present in the collimation process. You don't even need a laser to collimate a Newt with either - they are a convenience tool. A Cheshire eyepiece or Auto collimator (that's what the tool is called) is capable of doing it all and star testing will provide the final tweeks.
I too at one time thought a laser did it all. I'd adjust the colli screws on the secondary and then the primary and off I'd go. But slowly over time the "collimated image" was getting worse and highly distorted and no matter what I did was the image improving. Out of desperation one night I thought I'd look down the focuser drawtube and OMG! The secondary mirror was so far out of whack! It was no where properly positioned in front of focuser that it did not take a tool to show this!!! The primary was also out as it had to be adjusted for the misaligned secondary.
That was when the penny dropped for me as to why I wss getting a false-positive collimation from just using the laser.
A laser alone will not get all aspects of the secondary sorted out for you. This includes the optimal position in relation to the focuser and drawtube.
Sorry for the digression, but I don't want to see you, Kon, find yourself in difficulties with your new scope and tear your hair out from frusyration that stems from a fundamental aspect of Newts.
Alex.