Good post Okami, I also beleive at the bottom of all the stuff that gets hashed and rehashed about shaolin do, is probally a legitamate style of martial arts. People can argue history till the end of the world and acomplish nothing. Using history to define a martial art is flawed, look at CLF on the southern forum. Choy Lay Fut is a pretty new style(maybe 200 years?) still people argue about history, who cares. Also i don't care about what type of uniform they use, I mean would we say someone doesn't practice real CMA because they wear sweat clothes to train in?
The only real problem I see with the Shaolin Do system is the 900(or more) forms that Sin The teaches. That is way to much info to have for any one man. It seems like he incorperated or made up allot of stuff more recent, I suspect for business reasons but who knows. I can't comment on the effectiveness of their technique since i have never personally trained with them.
Most people I meet on these forums from Shaolin do are pretty open about trading info and they do seem well behaved, which is allot more than I can say about Chung mo quan people. So there are some good things about that school, they just need to be careful about becoming forms collectors.