Thanx guys, it looks like I made good choices then. I wouldn't have ordered the X5T had I known the prices of 123A Lithium batteries cost $10 locally! I guess I can just order them online though. So far the cheapest prices I've seen for those are $2.50. If anyone knows of a reliable and cheaper place to get them from, that would be great!
I bought the LitePro Teknolite mainly for the good battery use. I realize it's output is not quite as good as the X5T but the battery use is far better, plus I have 3 sets of 2500 mAh rechargeable AA batteries that I had originally bought for our digital camera about 6 months ago so I at least have 6 batteries I can switch back and forth for the Teklite.
I needed at least one good flashlight. Currently we only one flashlight for the whole house and it's a incandescent Aluminum Energizer that takes 4 AA batteries which last about....oh 4 hours max, I'd say....maybe less. I'm talking 4 hours completely drains the batteries. It probably only has around 1 hour of good light. So as you can see we needed a good light.
I was going to get Streamlite ProPolymer 4-AA LED flashlight until I read so many reviews of them going bad. Had that flashlight been reliable, I would have bought that over the Teklite but as it stands now I think the Teklite is probably the best for output and battery use. I was going to get Lightwave before anything else and I know the battery life is even better but the output isn't as good as the Teklite and certainly less than the X5T.
Anyway it looks like in the near future the way technology is going, you'll be able to buy a LED flashlight that will be brighter than a D cell incandescent MAGlight, last longer than a Lightwave 4000 and have it only take 1 AA battery to do all of this! Yeah, I know, I may be new to this but something like that is the "Holy Grail" of Flashlights huh?
This is OT but I think the coolest looking LED flashlight I've seen so far is the Lumaray FL6. Nothing like having a flashlight that looks like a lightsaber. The Longbow lights look like sabers a bit too.