I can't imagine writing for another publisher after hearing about all the awful things that happen to people's books. I'm very lucky. Sounds like you had a really rough time. :(
Honestly, it was a great learning experience and I'm glad to have been given the opportunity. After two books (the first one on Perl last year) I toyed with the idea of turning this into a career, but financial reality set in :)
Oh, yea! You were at code camp! I didn't make it this year, but you did some pretty good talks at the one last year. I won an e-book copy of that book, then my nook broke.