Well, I guess I should back up and tell you guys and gals my sob story...
Once upon a time my family bought a Panasonic SA-HT920 DVD Home Theater Surround Sound System. Couldn't be happier with it, as it played all of our favorite DVDs with great sound quality. This past Christmas, however, we bought my dad a Blu-Ray player with some Blu Rays, and all seemed great... until we tried playing Inglourious Basterds. Everything was fine until we played the movie (Including the title screen)... as the DVD player would then say ERROR and no sound would come out.
Fast forward to calling Panasonic and Best Buy about the problems (and doing a bit of research of my own). It appears that the sound system wont work with movies that come with 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio Surround Sound. Now, more and more movies have this type of sound quality (our most recent example is Avatar... and Lord of the Rings...) so our BluRay player is becoming more and more obsolete with each passing Tuesday (I can only watch the Dark Knight on BluRay for so long!).
Now, it also turns out that the Sound System we currently have is unique to the DVD player, so we can't just buy an audio converter and switch all of our current speakers and sub. It's obsolete without the DVD player hub... so we have to get a brand spanking new sound system.
Now, I'm not looking for the end all be all of sound systems (Best Buy's "best" deal for us was over $1,000...) and I don't even care if the sound system has another BluRay player as the hub. I'm looking for the best mix of quaity and affordability, and I don't care what it is or what it comes with. 
I'm asking you guys because you guys are awesome... and you probably know more than I do when it comes to this sort of thing. Help a BluRay sound deprived VGChartz member out! 
