i talked to tbone, and what happened to his rod bolts was the machine shops fault.
as most people know, when you install new rod bolts, 9 times out of 10 it deforms the rod bore and you have to have them resized. well to resize them the machine shop removes material from end cap then torques (or stretches, whichever you want them to do) the end cap back on to spec to rebore the hole to the correct size and make it perfectly round again. now what happened in Tbones case was the machine shop overstretched the bolts, permanently deforming them making them skinnier. he said he was able to turn the rod upside down with the end caps removed and the rod bolts would just fall out since they were now skinnier. this was purely the shops fault and has nothing to do with the method (torquing or stretching) in which they were installed in the motor.
but since stretching is more accurate, i will mostlikely be picking up a stretch guage and installing them that way.