Weatherstrip Nightmare

[Beatcoaster]

So I just got finished painting my entire interior last night and I pull out my brand new door weatherstrips from LMC to install today. I start on the passenger side, get all the adhesive on there, get the strip on, let it cure, it's on nice and tight, looks better than out of the factory - I'm super excited....and then...I go to shut the door, and can't even get to the safety latch click. It is clearly way too thick and is binding up in the front, so I adjust the doors out as far as they will go and fix that problem but the alignment is way off. I go to shut the door again and now it gets really close to the second, final latch point, but even hitting it with my ass hard, it doesn't shut...I adjust the striker plate all the way out and it finally closes and latches, but the door looks like it is about to fall off, cause eveything is adjusted so far out. After 2 more hours of adjusting I still cannot get it to close easily and correctly, so I get pissed and start cutting out the hard pieces in the corner and back edge of the weatherstrip...Still not perfect, and the door is still adjusted way too far out. So at this point, after 4 hours or work, I have destroyed my passenger weatherstrip by cutting pieces out, it looks like crap, I have adhesive showing, and my excitement level is crushed....

Does anyone have any ideas for me? Are there other sources for weather strip that fits like the old stuff did(aka perfect?!?!). I really want to adjust my doors back in also cause it all looks so wrong right now...

*sigh* ~Dejected in Washington