For those of you who have offered advice, and for those who had been reading the thread http://us.lexusownersclub.com/forums/index...showtopic=26818 with a mixture of curiosity, dread, disdain, and bemusement, I am happy to report that the power steering issue has been fixed! I wish I could announce some radical, heretofore unheard of solution that would make the LOC nominate me for a Nobel prize, but in the end it was back to basics. I had about given up and was staring at a new OEM power