Nice story!
I really lucked out on Propaganda tickets for Brum, only a few rows back from the front. I remember the ticket usher guy just kept taking my sister and I closer and closer to the stage! An amazing experience. I seem to remember The Edge being really fired up that night, he didn't look happy at all, but his playing was ridiculously good. Bono always seems happy to be back in Birmingham and the NEC always feels relatively intimate.
I must have heard that bootleg 1000's of times, a soundboard or a pro-shot are my holiest of holy grails, although I'm more than prepared to accept neither will ever happen! The closest we get is the Stockholm pro-shot, great, but it's not quite got that special intensity that only happens on certain nights. The end of UTEOTW and LIB being two great examples.