All My Press Problems Solved!

I have been having unending difficulties, as anyone who has read my previous posts will know. But I fixed them, and it was all pretty simple in the end.

1: Print with the lid open.
2: Turn the fan around on the extruder so it blows air into the extruder instead of drawing it out.
3: Removed the plastic panel that runs vertically up the back of the printer (covering the rods for the z-axis). This stopped my bed from catching on the extruder fan mount as it goes up and down.
4: Printed a few small plastic shims which I push between the glass bad and the metal retainers on each side. This stops the bed from moving around.
5: Set the extruder temp to 250 and the bed temp to 100
6: Download "Cura" slicer and use it with Repetier Host. Slic3r is awful! It doesn't produce support material correctly, struggles with top and bottom surfaces, and takes ages to slice complex items. Cura does it all better. Support is perfect (and easy to remove), slicing is faster, and there is a lot of control over the print from the main interface too, so you don't have to go into the configuration page for small changes. I can't stress enough how much better my prints are with Cura.
7: Always clean the bed and coat it with glue stick.

Edit: I forgot to include the following items in the above list:-
8: Calibrate the extruder.
9: Adjust the trimpots using a multimeter.
10: Remove the clear plastic cover on the front of the extruder heat sink.

I'm getting good results even with the ABS which shipped with the Press now. I'll post some comparison pics to show the difference when I get a chance.