Well, I took the plunge and while waiting in the airport on Monday, I ordered a pair of M60Ti towers, a VP100 center, a pair of QS8 surrounds and an EP350 sub. I am stoked....I can't wait until they come in. I am especially putting myself through torture since I decided to order through the factory outlet and the wait time on the QS8s is 8 weeks. I just have to suffer a little longer with my 10 year old Acoustimas/Cerwin-Vega setup until they arrive. I also ordered speaker and sub cables from Heartland and they should arrive well ahead of the speakers themselves. Based upon what I read from this board, the Axioms should be an excellent pairing with what I consider to be a pretty sweet HT setup:

Yamaha RXV2500 Receiver
Monster HTS2600 Power Center
Sony 55" Grand WEGA LCD HDTV
Sony DCPN655P DVD/CD Player
Samsung DirecTV DVR
XBox/PS2
Apple Airport Express (wireless iTunes and high speed link for XBox Live!)

I cant wait to play Halo 2 over these speakers! I want to thank everyone on this board who has contributed honest evaluations of these speakers (especially Mark on his Mother of all Posts!). I will provide an update when they come in.
Pete