Wanted to send a big "thank you" to you guys for your help on where to buy a kayak. Your suggestions were very helpful and appreciated.  Fortunately, my patience paid off (and "sailfish" suggesting them) I ended up driving to Adventure Sports\Kayak City in Sacramento after speaking with Carl and buy one today.  I got the color i wanted (the hard to find papaya\yellow) but changed my mind and got the Outback model.  Decided the extra stability was more important to me than a little more speed.  Was hard for me to sacrifice the weight savings but bit the bullet on it. What sealed the deal was they had them on sale.  I don't know how long the sale is but the savings was enough for me to drive almost three hundred miles round trip!  Best deal I've seen in two years researching.

My Experiences:
When i first posted my question, i had already checked out Mel Cottons in San Jose.  They were out of the Revolution.  I didn't go back due to a perceived bad experience.  They didn't seem interested in helping anyone at all.  After hanging around for a while we finally tracked down a rep. to ask if they had any in stock.  Guy seemed disgruntled to tell us they didn't have any and we'd have to pay the shipping to order it.  Probably just a bad day or possibly they get jerked around a lot dealing with people that ask about Hobie's.  Then drove to Kayak Connections in Santa Cruz.  They were nice but only had red available in Elk Horn Slough.  After noticing all the shark attacks on kayakers over the years were red kayaks.  I wanted to stay away from red ones.  This may be a coincidence since everyone seems to stock red more than the other colors.   I did buy the turbo fins and the sail rudder from them.  Then I drove drove down to Elkorn.  Man, driving down there using Hwy 1 BLOWS!  Nice enough experience at the store but they didn't have the color i wanted.  I will compliment them for willing to split the shipping cost with me.  A nice gesture but not enough for me to pull the trigger and buy one from them.

Side Note:
 Hearing rumours Hobie is doing a pretty big redesign on the Revolution for 2010.  Might be adding some more stability to them.  Anyone have any info on this?

 Thanks again for the suggestions and to Carl.  Without your help, I wouldn't be a kayak owner today...