I hope it all works out for you soon.
Yanno...Jack did a really nice 'How to rebuild your engine' video that takes you thru each step of rebuilding an engine. With that and a 'How to rebuild your VW engine' book, you should have enough info to light up all of your blind spots and do your own work. If you can follow instructions, and keep things surgically clean while assembling the internals of the engine, you can do it all yourself. You'll save money, gain experience, have bragging rights & KNOW exactly what is in your engine without any BS.
What one man can do, another can do. If you want something done right, do it yourself.
-Brady