update
welp, believe it or not, the 461r powerhead come in yesterday. he did what i asked, kept it in the box. it was the coolest thing opening that box to me. the bar and chain didnt come til today, so for the time being i slapped on a 25" bar with a rsf chain...so let me get it out now, that saw is freakin awesome and well worth the wait! but the dealer still screwed up the order. i asked for a 28" rollomatic es light, when he called me today i asked him before i came to pick up the bar if it was the light version, he paused for a second, made some noise and then said yup stihl rollomatic es light its right here in my hands. i asked if he got me the rslhk chain, he said no he got me rs chain. i was happy he got me the right bar, wasnt too worried about the chain. so i made the trip over there to pick up the bar instead of hunting the afternoon hunt for the elusive whitetail since i gotta outta work a bit early today after they gave us a 9 foot sub and some of a guy there's homemade wine...anyways, i got there and the main guy who i deal with, john, was gone, he takes lunch from 330-5 and they close at 530...i dont get that, it proves inconvenient each time i deal with them, so i looked at the bar and it said rollomatic es. i told the other parts/sales guy, tom, it was wrong and blah blah blah he sent me home with it and said dont use it until john calls you and lets you know whether or not we're going to take it back and get you the right one or not, then at least you have it for the weekend. tom also said that stihl only makes one kind of bar. these guys are woodchucks. tom said he'd have john call me, john never called, i called him and he said that theres nothing he can do, thats what comes with the saw. i argued with him politely over that for a bit, and i lost, im stuck with the regular es, which isnt terrible, cause my other rollomatic es in 28" is kinda spanked it come with my 045 and idk what the guy did to that bar. the chain goes from perfect slack adjustment to you could fit 4 quarters in between it and the bar every couple inches that you rotate the chain. so to end my rambling, i like the 461r, i dont like that they designed it so that you cant fit a scrench on the inner bar nut too good cause the handle is in the way, dumb design. i use my little husky scrench which fits right in there, still kinda tight, but its annoying cause that scrench is so tiny. i put 2 tanks through it so far since i got it and im really liking it. oh and btw my air filter came in with the powerhead. finally. oh and one more funny thing, like 2 months ago i went in there to get a 20" bar for my 362 and all they had was small mount green bars and they said they'd have to special order it. i asked for a rollomatic es large mount 20" and the guy said he had to call his rep to ask about it....these guys are woodchucks. im going to a stihl elite dealership this weekend that i havent been to yet its a bit further drive but over the phone they seem real nice so im going to see what they have to say.
sorry i type so much, i cant even read through all this that i wrote without losing track...