Thanks for the information, Jim. It was most helpful. I thought I would quickly recap how the job went. Who knows when work on the rear brakes was done last, but I'm guessing it was some time ago.

This job really turned into quite a nightmare. The pads with the wear indicators were ground down to the indicators on a really weird slant. The lower caliper bracket pins pushing against the outer pads on both driver and passenger sides were very much stuck in the compressed position (these pins were opposite the extreme wear on the inner pads with the indicators - I'm guessing that is not coincidence), and really had to be forced out, cleaned and greased. Whoever did the job last used really soft metal screws for the rotor attaching bolts, and those just stripped easily without much effort, which then had to be drilled out. Also, the caliper bracket retainer bolts on the passenger side snapped with little effort as well. Luckily the bracket could slide out of place, and then those too had to be drilled out and tapped. The piston on the driver side had to really be worked slowly back and forth, and with the help of a little grease, finally gave up the fight.

Mike