So, I went to Kragen and bought a magnetic oil pan plug with nylon gasket.

Got home, unscrewed the old plug and OMFG! How in the h3ll did I do this:



The threads on the old plug were basically completely flat!!!

After the oil drained out, I cleaned up around the drain hole and then jacked up the front end, and shined a flashlight into the hole. I could see a little piece of stripped metal around the inner threads which I pulled out with some needle nose pliers. Behold:



I waited a little while until the pan and oil cooled a little, and then I stuck my finger up the hole and the threads of the pan felt fine. So I then screwed in the new plug. It went in smooth and easy, and I did thread it in and out a couple times, using the magnetic tip to extract a few more tiny metal shavings from the pan threads.

After this thorough job, I closed everything up, and then changed the oil filter and refilled with fresh oil.

NO LEAKING!!!!

So, in the end, somehow I must have cross threaded the plug in last time I changed my oil and not just buggered up a little, but completely destroyed the original plug. Lucky for me, the threads on the inside of the pan did not suffer and significant damage, and my VX isn't bleeding anymore.

Whew. I'm happy now. Thanks everyone for all your help and knowledge.

Bart