Thanks to all who have taken the time to send some advice in my direction. If there is any more electric guitar advice out there, I'm still very interested in hearing it.

I don't understand why an "in tune" electric guitar can sound great when barred chords are played higher up the neck but sound out of tune when the basic first position chords are played. - And why an "in tune" acoustic guitar sounds great when ANY chord is played. I would think a guitar is either "in tune" for all chords or it isn't. I'm not looking forward to relearning most of the songs I know so that I can play them on an electric guitar without the sour sounding basic chords that I'm used to playing and which sound great on an acoustic. Did I misunderstand this concept?? (Please say yes!!)