Thanks Rooster2, that did help. one interesting thing I found is that on ebay all transmissions for 2000, 2001 were separate but that the 02-03's were listed together and all the sellers stated that in those years ALL were listed as being interchangeable, for the Subaru legacy outbacks in the 2.5's...But its funny that the dealships I talked to didn't seem to really have a clue, in fact one even told me they were completely different part numbers! Another said that there was in fact a difference but he could not tell what it was...seems with all the information out there on cars someone would know what the numbers mean and the differences in them.