G'day mate,
Welcome to the madhouse. With regards to getting the colour matched, it can be a tough job. The metallic is very fine and can be a bugger to achieve, also make sure the person doing the job gets the colour matched exactly, the guy that did mine was pretty good but it still ended up slightly green when compared to the original paint.
There used to be 4 goldies in Cairns but at the moment I only know of two, mine and a mates. His has well over 250000kms on it, mine has only 86000kms on it so barely run in.
Cheers,
Craig.