Mike, I'm curious how you are able to bottom your bike so easily. From your description, we are pretty much identical riders. I also ride mostly offroad, but do some MX for fun. Have you ever serviced the suspension? Are you running stock valving? With stock valving, my bike was acceptable on the rocks/roots, and great for MX. I've jumped 40+ft without bottoming either end. That was with the factory settings for everything. I've managed to bottom the forks once, with the clickers all the way out when I jumped, and landed the front end on the face of a whoop. I've never bottomed the shock. At least not hard enough to know it. It seems like something in there's not right.
Jeremy