Some thoughts
You may be able to lower it either by modifying the spring perches, or re-engineering the bearing assembly at the top. I all else fails, you can heat the springs (not recommended)
Typically you do not want 0 camber, it will handle like crap see if you can find the factory specs. If you can't adjust the factory camber I'd buy one of these
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache...&client=safari works very well.
I'd guess the hybrid brake myth comes from the fact that the brakes will wear mor slowly (some energy used to charge rather than shunted to heat) and the fact that salesmen/ people are often dumb.
Keep up the good work.