I wanted to share this interesting article I found about TDS. It helped me understand a little better...it seems like it comes from a reliable source too.

http://www.ppoa.org/article_TDS.htm

I guess salty tasting, yet balanced water isn't such a bad thing. It's not really harming anything having a high TDS level...nobody's skin will burn off or anything. Thinking about where our pool was 1 month ago, it could definetly be worse.