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Joey, to make it easier to read, copy and paste my last comment to you on a Notepad (use word-wrap), Wordpad or Microsoft Word file and then at least space out the numbered paragraphs.
I have some comments about your points (which, by the way, don't seem to offer references, and can be found in mainstream media just like "Paleo information" can):
1. Several tribes (such as Zulu, Hopi, Jumano, Wampanoag and Miami Indian, from what I can gather) will eat a diet that includes beans and grains (ex.: wild corn). There's tribes that can tolerate, and even thrive very well on, those kinds of foods, even though there's a lot of other tribes that may not be able to do this at all. This may depend on things like genetics and individual physiology.
2. While some tribes can't tolerate milk (and do much better without it), some tribes actually thrive on milk. However, this is raw full-fat milk and it usually either comes straight from the cow and is drunk right away or it is made into raw cheeses and eaten over time. This milk is most likely from grass-fed animals that can roam free, and probably never got injected with various hormones and chemicals.
3. Tropical tribes (such as from the Amazon Rainforest) will tend to have various wild fruits (mainly berries) in their diets, and may even include sun-dried fruits (which are basically concentrated sugars, fibers and anti-oxidants). These fruits will tend to be lower in sugar, and higher in fiber and anti-oxidants, than their more "domesticated" counterparts. The tribes that tend to not have much, if any, fruit are the ones who live in colder climates. These are people who are "built" for living in cold climates and for eating whatever is available in their local area (being mostly red-meat).
4. The research on this tends to say that processed and preserved meats are high in nitrites (which nitrosamines come from). Cooking meat will also increase the nitrosamine level of the meat. There's actual tribes that eat their meat fresh and raw, right after a killing. I've also read articles that mention benefits of naturally-occurring nitrates found in meat. They're found in small amounts and are healthy in those quantities (even if you consider the relative ratio to meat's other nutrients). Basically, nitrates are "bad" for you in a similar way to poly-unsaturated fats (i.e. if chemically made or isolated and then taken in high amounts).
5. There's various places where you can find free information on hunter-gatherer diets, and even what worked for the people following these kinds of diets, where they don't even bother you all that much, if at all, about buying anything from them. Also, we live in a capitalist society. There's going to be tendencies for everything to be tied to money in some way. For example, did you notice that the scientific community (which needs funding to thrive at all) tends to advocate only the kind of diet(s) that greatly promote(s) what certain businesses (ex.: grain producers) want?
6. The study given to you seems to be more of an analysis and summary of various observational studies, so I get your skepticism. From my own personal research and experience, "heart disease" is a complicated issue and isn't as simple as "each individual should just follow these one-size-fits-all guidelines and everyone's 'heart health' should be maximized". What makes one person healthy is going to make another person unhealthy. I so happen to do best on a lot of animal-fat, red-meat and very little to no carbs. My blood-tests and urine-tests have never been better on this kind of lifestyle. This has to do with my body's own physiological tendencies. For all I know, someone else on this specific diet may create an imbalance in their body, which will slowly kill them. In our current culture, there will be a tendency for people to say that someone like me is anecdotal evidence about saturated fat being good, while the other guy is going to easily back-up the automatic claim that saturated fat raises cholesterol and creates heart disease. People will have a hard time thinking that high-cholesterol, at least in certain cases, is a correlated symptom of arterial inflammation (contributed partially by excess carbs, and especially sugar).
7. I generally don't read magazines. I've actually taken college courses on health and fitness (and gotten lots of A's) and, during the past 10-15 years, I've read a lot of books and articles (including scientific articles from medical databases/websites) that gave different perceptions on the whole health and fitness issue. When it came down to it, I had to try to find and do whatever unique and personally-customized lifestyle would work best for me, regardless of the default lifestyle promoted by medical experts and the mainstream media. I hope that you have enough of an open mind yourself to try things you've never tried before instead of automatically filtering out any information that doesn't follow what the scientific community seems to push on people. As a couple of examples (and keep in mind that I don't actually know if you've tried these), maybe you could try some beef liver once in a while, or you could take a long-term break from conventional wheat-based bread to eat some kamut bread from a health-food store.
P.S. On the issue of grains, they're usually advocated as a source of carbs, fiber, vitamins and minerals, even though many of these things can be found elsewhere; and I'm not even including the fact that grain-products have to be "fortified" to even have many of the.vitamins and minerals that it has. Also, even though grains contain fiber, which can be great for digestion in it's own right, it also contain a lot of starch, which tends to constipate the body. I found that, even though protein itself may tend to constipate the body at times, unprocessed naturally-occurring fats (being liquid at body temperature) will help lubricate the digestive lining and make foods pass through more easily. Personally, if anything, I've found myself consistently getting more constipated from eating mainly high-fiber plants (even during long periods of not eating starchy foods) than from eating mainly animal-products (whether high-fat or not).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3ehzZ3yNyw