WAY TO GO MARK!!!
Glad to hear you've got that behind you. Being an optomist I can add that now you are assured of the condition of several parts of your car (compression, clean injectors, no woes a the strainer, etc.) that you might not have been if you had replaced the offensive bit of rubber first off.
Marks wagon is sweet, not the ordinary rust mobile I see around these parts....
Hip Hip Hooray!