In post #4 I meant to say that I would NOT continue driving it like this, with oil leaking out of the head gasket because this will only get worse. If coolant get's into the crankcase and pumped the the engine, this could do a lot of damage. I went back and corrected what I meant to say.

I was told by a MB factory service tech that high mileage engines should be retorqed at 1000 miles, but there seems to be some discrepancy about this.