Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi all, 

I must admit it had been a long time since I read the daily mails I get from this group. 

Reason 1 was: I wanted to play play play (i.e. practice). Reason 2: Due to all this practicing 
and my work (computer use) I have been developing severe RSI problems: shoulder, arms, 
and hands, so I needed to stay away from computers and drums as much as possible. 
Thanks to frequent sports, physical therapy, and changes at work I'm starting to recover. I 
still have the feeling that the rubber pads play a role in the RSI problems, though. 

The message that woke me up is the "magic box"  being sort of ready for shipping. This 
allows extra inputs such as... a mesh head pad (or other better pad) for snare that 
hopefully will decrease chances of having another RSI attack (I guess). The options are

1) The DTXTREMEII snare (much better rubber, feel, etc I read in the posts)
2) A Pintech snare
3) An acoustic snare with mesh head & trigger (e.g. Yamaha DT20 or so). 

I tend to choose #3 because I can always use it as an acoustic snare, and I want the extra 
snare on a seperate stand (is this possible for the Pintechs?) to avoid cross talk. But I'm a 
bit afraid I will run into trigger problems for that option, such as the trigger being too 
sensitive or insensitive. Perhaps with the integrated trigger in the Pintech pads, this is 
much easier to set up...

Does anyone have ideas or recommendations?

Another point is the hihat. My guess is that not any (reasonably priced) electronic hihat is 
as subtle as a real one. So I'm thinking about buying an acoustic hihat. Again, if you have 
any thoughts on this, I would be interested. 

Thanks!