thanks for the support John, the prior gaskets for the tranny pan and the electronic pan in front of it were both stuck on, it was a serious pain to scrape them off without damaging anything, and this doesn't even go into the girief these lousy bolts gave me! haha
as far as leaks go, I had a really small one near the drain plug, tightened that a little more and apparently I'm home free, I did the protective coating tx on the garage floor so in addition to making it easy to clean up spills or drips, it's also pretty easy to see them as well, so far so good
And no, I went cheap and didn't get synthetic, didn't realize that Isuzu says not to mess with it if everything's going ok as I thought it was a 90k service, oh well, thankfully it's none the worse for wear