Your gaskets are not bad - or probably aren't. Its the damn RTV-stuff between the valve covers and breather covers that fails.

I changed my gaskets, too. But that was just on "General Principles" as I had the covers off.

As to removing the old RTV, I peeled most of it off by just picking at it with a TINY awl, being VERY careful to not damage the cover itself. What was left melted away with a toothbrush dipped in gasoline. I had 2 or 3 little spots that would not come off, I used a brass brush dipped in gasoline and LIGHT force and the stuff came right off.

Someone tell me if I did wrong here.

My car is an 07 with 33,000 miles. THe gaskets were fine, but like I said, after getting that far into it, I changed them anyway as well as all the (supposedly) "single use" bolts.