I'm surprised at G-Man's lack of love for the Claremont/Smith run (I actually enjoy Paul Smith's work). And I also dug the Morrison/Quitely run. The X-titles are virtually unreadable these days, and that's coming from someone who started reading comics because of the X-Men.
No, my point was that Claremont and Smith's run was the last run I liked until the Morrison/Quietley run.
I was saying that everything in between those runs was shit and that's why I had no idea who Nate Grey was. I'd stopped reading the book years before he appeared and didn't pick it up again until years after that storyline.