Stupid Distributor Questions

No I was not talking about the vacume canister hitting the firewall or the coil,and I am just stating that it DOES matter,when at t.d.c. the points should be just starting to open,correct? and the rotor button should be pointing to the #1 electrode on the distributor cap,correct? what if the rotor button is pointing in between two electrodes?then it will either be lazy even though a dial timing light will show the engine to be in perfect time it will not be,or it will be a "ping monster" and when you get the engine timed where it will run good it will ping like crazy and be hard to start(laboring the starter)because the intermiediate shaft was either a tooth advanced or a tooth retarded,the bottom line is that it takes about ten minutes or less to check it and it doesn't cost a penny to be sure thats not the problem that's all.so if you have some spare time one day just try it and you will see,I'm not upset or anything and just hope it will help you guy's out in the future because it is important that the rotor not be inbetween to electrodes,and no Ive never seen a twisted intermiediate shaft on a mopar,nor a twisted distributor shaft on a chevy. just pop off the cap and give a look see.what could that hurt?