Tena, I just said in MikeTTF's thread that I was going to bed...I am crosseyed at this point, but I saw your post and had to reply.
Here is some interesting technical reading about awards and denials:
How Large Are the Classication Errors in the Social Security Disability Award Process?
Hugo Benītez-Silva, SUNY-Stony Brook
Moshe Buchinsky, UCLA and NBER
John Rust, University of Maryland
August, 2006
http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~hbenitezsilv/dice.pdf
Note that this is a pdf file.
What legal assistance have you sought out in your state?
Sadly, while Social Security is a federal program, it is not administered the same from state to state.