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I like YLT because of it's word-by-word approach. Granted it doesn't flow that well, but Young's irreproachable testimony to the word being "God-breathed" gives me comfort in the attitude of his heart as he attempted faithfully to put down simply what was before him, not what sounded pretty.

Agreed. He has a sound testimony, very much along the lines of Burgon and the KJV translators and the martyrs who produced the Tyndale and the Geneva and other great bibles. When the modernist bible, the Revision, first came out, Burgon took up a teaching position at Oxford to champion the traditional text, both the TR and the KJV. His speeches are magnificent. Admittedly, it's rather novel to hear an Anglican celebrate the Word so forthrightly and eloquently. I'll have to dig out one of his speeches some time.

The great translators and defenders were all unashamed to be fundamentalist about the Bible. They did not consider it proper to be handled as mere literature or by the unorthodox or by unbelievers.