Looking back it's amazing that it took a year to find what I was looking for (more or less). Since there are almost 1500 views, I guess I should write a follow-up.
The only residential range that I found that fully offered what I was looking for was made by Premier. I don't recall if it had the solenoid gas cutoff or not, though. It did have a AA battery igniter system like my Weber gas grill. The downside was that I called the company and they admitted that the range was at the bottom of the quality scale.
We finally found a 30" Dacor that had most of what I was looking for. We are still stuck with the solenoid shutoff and electronic ignighters. But, it is built as solidly as our old Wolf. There is no electronic control panel and just large simple knobs for teperature adjustments. The downside to the knobs is that they are stainless steel and mounted just above the oven door. The Wolf also had large knobs mounted above the oven door, but they were plastic and didn't retain heat like the Dacor's.
The burners are 800 to 18,000 BTU for NG and the broil setting is 25,000. We use LP so ours burn a bit hotter. We had to special order (no extra charge) the LP/High Altitude version. Another off-grid plus (though minor) is that the oven light is not automatic, we have to punch a button to turn it on and off.
The oven racks are solidly built and have an opening in the front that make grabbing them with oven mitts much easier. One rack is attatched to a ball bearing "glide rack" that can be a problem is the range is not perfectly level.
All-in-all, after several months of use, we are very happy with it. Apparently there is no getting around the parisitic gas shutoff, though.
ETA: A special thanks to Penn for his PM advice and suggestions!
Pat
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