Tried emailing you but outlook got antsy and 
refused because it said it found an "illegal 
host/domain"  Hotmail, what have ye done?!

anyway:
Saiyuki definitely good.  You have to watch the 
first series and then the reload series.  The 
manga, IMHO, is even better, though.  The final 
story arc for the first anime series doesn't 
really appear in the manga.  More of the manga 
episodic stories turn up in the reload series.  
But especially in the beginning of the first 
series, the anime very closely matches the manga 
art.  Chick flick - ehhh...lots of character 
angst, of course, and they get put through the 
ringer, but lots of action too, and great 
characters.  Try a high holy monk who 
swears,drinks and smokes, kills, and whose most 
endearing comments to his companions is, "Do you 
want to die?" (in the Japanese version. I haven't 
really listened to the entire thing in the dub 
version).
 
Great characters, and the music is terrific too.  
Audiowise, I'd go with the original japanese with 
subtitles.  The voices of the Japanese actors 
have much more variation and emotion, although 
the american voice actor for Goku does a good job 
too.
 
With regard to the complete series - I got the 
hong-kong issues off ebay.  The translations 
weren't half bad.  A few minor rough spots, but 
especially the reload were good.  I will say, 
though, that the US releases not only have the 
something like 8 dvd set of the first series, but 
a - I forget what it's called, but I've seen it 
in Suncoast and Best Buy - set that's called 
something like "fully packed" or "fully loaded", 
that has about twelve or more eps in a slim-case.
 
I've gotten some complete series from people on 
ebay and can probably look up their old email 
addies (some aren't ebay members any more).  The 
guy who did the complete Full Metal Alchemist set 
did a great job (even though I do buy the 
domestic release, sometimes I just have to see 
the whole series before I commit to buying it.  
The one place I find Japanese series fall down is 
in the endings.  Under the "good ride but hated 
the ending" group I include Wolf's Rain and 
Samurai Champloo.)
 
I HIGHLY recommend the Ganz series that's coming 
out now.  I haven't seen the whole thing, but 
it's fairly cheap at Best Buy, and lol, gore, 
angst, mystery, and a confused, hormonely surging 
main character.  It was never even shown in Japan 
uncut (not for sex but for gore) until the dvd 
release.
 
12 Kingdoms - very RPG like but really solid 
animation and detailed multi-threaded storylines.
 
My old favorite - Generator Gawl.  Very 
cheap "perfect collection" on ebay (I think 
that's a domestic release, too). Good story and 
good twists too.  Action and some comedy as well, 
but it gets very serious along the way. 
 
Hope this helps some!