Thanks Jim, can you elaborate on this : However, they won't buy into the whole rotary discussion/concept.
Yeah, I could, but you have been mean and disrespectful to me so I ain't going to.? ?

In my words/summary.? keep that in mind.? I'm sometimes not real precise.
Look at the first message link below and Gary has another post right next to it.? Most bootfitters see everything as a canting or alignment problem.? They will have you stand in the boots and check to see if the center of mass of your knee aligns perfectly over the gap between your big and second toe.? Mine does.? Then they will have you flex your knees and measure again.? if you are now out of alignment, then they will cant the soles of the boots to get that alignment back.? Harald says that this isn't an alingment problem, its a problem with the boots not tracking straight forward when flexed.? The boot manufacturers say this is to enhance the "turning power" of the boots, Harald says that turning power is counter-productive because you are trying to edge the skis and not turn them; it makes it more difficult to apply even edging pressure to the ski and that boots should track straight forward when flexed.? Boots that track to the inside he calls rotary, boots that track straight forward are called lateral.? In his books, Harald lists a number of boot manufacturers that make non-rotary boots.? My guess/personal opinion is that you can determine whether a boot is rotary just by watching what the bootfitter sees when he checks alignment.
At the very least, try a pair of Head or Dalbello boots and see what your alignment is when standing and when flexed, and compare that to what happens with a pair of Atomics or Lange's.? I predict the results will differ.? My concern is that if the boot changes my alignment, then how do I stay balanced when I am somewhere between straight up and fully flexed.? Flexing or bending the boots should change my fore-aft balance, it shouldn't affect my sideway balance.
http://skiforums.org/rev2/index.php?topic=1268.msg5197#msg5197I've actually had a couple of places do a boot alignment, either for real because of a purchase or as part of considering a purchase.? Harb's people were the only ones that noticed that although my alignment was good, I have a "forefoot varus" that makes it difficult to get pressure to the big toe (especially when the ankle is pretty locked in neutral in a ski boot and can't compensate by rolling over), and their modification to my footbeds several years back made a huge difference.
http://www.comfortshoe.com/knee_pain.html