>Any suggestions on what ISP's are a good combination of price (unlimited)and
>performance?

As a soon-to-be former Sprint ION customer, I, too, am in the market for 
some sort of residential high-speed 'net access.
The obvious choices are SWB DSL and Road Runner.  I seem to hear fewer 
complaints from RR customers than SWB, so that's what I'm leaning towards.

Any other options I should check out, that are available to me in northeast 
Johnson Co (KS)?

I favor reliability over speed (I'd much prefer 1 Mbps/128kbps rock-solid 
over a flaky 8 Mbps/800 kbps connection).
Static IP address is a plus.  SWB and RR are both around $50/month, and I 
don't want to go much above that.

I'm going to miss my 4 Mbps/700 kbps (and very reliable) ION connection 
(with TWO static IP addresses). :^(

David