Just caught up on thread a little...
I can't really comment about the online cash games etc but I can say that there is pretty much never a better time to grind MTT's on Stars. A decent proportion of the really good regs have flown off to Vegas to hero away their bankrolls or w/e leaving the games as soft as they are gonna be all year round. Putting in as much online volume as you can over the next 6 weeks or so is very solid ev at worst...
That being said I think you will find that several of the tournaments you have been grinding will get significantly tougher after the series and it would be easy to over estimate your edge in them ($33r/$22r, Big 162 and Second chance being good examples) long term if you run well over the next few weeks.
Oh and your on my slowroll list for failing to even say hi when we have been on tables together etc