Yikes! Geesh, Kim, office politics stink, I've been there. Don't even get me started...
Personally, I believe being happy at your job is the most important. Being able to want to go to work in the morning because you love what you do and the people you work with was a decision I made. This stuff makes my head spin. How cruel and insensitive "big business" can be, especially when it comes from behind a desk, behind a big closed door when the "little" guy who busts butt gets the shaft. I know you'll make the right choice. I'll be thinking of you.