Thanks to everyone for the kind words. We bought this domain from MrRhee with Brian's help, then bam, Andy shows up on behalf of Stefano. Transaction was hairy, cause we spent two weeks trying to transfer the domain from Enom to DirectNIC, with support at both registrars telling us they didn't see any reason why the transfer wasn't going through (which turned out to be that Verisign won't do transfers of domains still classified as "premium," even though the renewal fee is standard).
In the end everyone happy - until we hear the domain resells for $100K...