What the heck is going on here?!

When you trim the piece that is interfering, hold on to it and flip it around to the outside or the travel area and weld it to the bracket. You will keep the rigitity of the bracket. Then patent it and start selling a good bracket for other folks!

...you would think that PST would get wise & use this as an opportunity to improve profit like good companies do.

Ryan, you'd better file for that patent, there's at least a few guys here who might want that bracket.