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1/2 a tooth is a lot. Mine never lined up "perfectly" when I was done, but probably not that much. If I had more know-how I would have put in compensating Woodruff keys for the cams (gear wear and just engine-to-engine variations account for a few degrees, apparently). I'll bet your misalignment is actually less than 1/2 of a tooth. If you were actually one tooth off, you would know by now, IMHO. I think a tooth is a large number of degrees (remember, cams move at 1/2 crank speed) and this would be, uhhh, "very bad".
Resistor plugs are NOT recommended (and yes, I know non-resistors are hard to find but they can be found). I'd look there, and also look at the routing of your ignition wires, and whether or not they are really on the plugs well (stupid mistake, but I've done it).
Did you replace the cap and rotor? Just disturbing an old one can make a marginal set-up bad.
Did you line up the distributor properly (the rotor to the mark on the distributor casting)? I assume that you removed it to do this job.
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