Idleing Issues!!!!

Ok here is the update to this.
First Ill start with some issues I found. I realized durring the last time I drove it, that if I kept the choke pretty well closed that it ran ok, idled better and all (still not a great idle but better). Then today I went to adjust the timing and carb and I could not get it to start for anything! So upon inspecting things I realized that when I pumped the throttle that NO FUEL was squirting into the venturies NONE! So I am thinking that I have a bad accelerator pump, which would also cause the crappy idleing (am I correct?). I noticed I have a "dead" spot as I try to bring the idle up slowly. The dead spot is imidiately off of the idle screw.
So, I went and bought the rebuild kit for my edlebrock. I have yet to rebuild it. However! I did eventually get it started and then went forward with adjusting the timing and the carb. Ok more issues concerning the timing adjustment.
So I adjusted the carb first and maybe I shouldnt have but it wasnt running very well so I got it better before atempting to time it. Here is where the problem lies. I put a quality timing light on it and the timing mark on the balancer was wayyyy before "0" (refering to clock position it was probley 12:30 or so) I have an advance style light and had to advance it about 40* according to the light, but according to the timing cover it was more like 20* or so. SO what I did was adjusted it til it came to "0" and my idle had dropped way low. so then I brought the idle up and drove it around for a few minutes. it idled better but still a lil' low. And thats when I had to stop tinkering for the night. Any help would be much appreciated!!!!
SORRY ABOUT THE NOVEL!!!!!!!!! LOL. :sleepy3: