What year is it...?(too lazy to go through your posts!)
I think the older ones had an alloy stand...correct me if I'm wrong.
I find the cast steel stand on mine is too slender...I worry that mine lean's too much in respect to the height of the stand and that the cast could crack or snap. My mito has an alloy "flick up" stand that it easily 3 inches longer than the duke stand and the lean angle is different in the respect that it is mounted further up the bike. It seems that the Ducati stand is mounted too low.
The pics on my site are taken outside my house and the camber is fairly adverse. But standing on flat ground it leans too much for me.
http://www.kwikbitch.co.uk/page4.htm