Well…..now I’m a little confused about the car…went out to work on it this morning; to replace the anti rattle spring and then work on the hand brake…I had it all worked out in my head to use the scientific method of controlling for variables to find out where the problem was…but after I put the spring back on and pulled the brake on to see where it was sticking, it wasn’t on either side…and now I’ve used it a few more times and it seems to be fixed….now, I’m not sure if it was the penetrating oil that I put on the linkages or that I greased the pins when I was putting the new pads on…both of those things are problem areas that I read about on Miata net but I guess it really doesn’t matter as long as it works….feels good to know that I can still fix the car when I need to….