As long as you can fix it and learn from it, its not stoopid. It's when you do the same wrong thing again and again that it becomes stooopid.

Looks fine to me as well. If you are going to replace the kit bridge, then look for a bridge with un-notched saddles. You can then notch the saddles yourself to meet your string spacing requirements.

It's probably the gaps down the side of the neck pocket that allowed your simple steaming setup to work. Had the neck been a really tight fit, the steam probably wouldn't have penetrated as far, which means drilling holes and using steam injector needles. Although it's mainly the heat that weakens the glue rather than the hot water vapour, so it may still have worked.