Ah, yes! Thank you Alan H!!!
MUCH better. I took Alan's suggestion and put the under apron pleat back the way it was originally, and added an extra 2 inches of material to the first box pleat.
Then I did the same to the final pleat and stitched the pleat edges (for first and last) about 2/3 of the way up to sharpen their edges.
My x-kilt does now hang much better.
I didn't have to rip that much out to fix it, just the first and last 10 inches of waistband.
Now to put some pockets on this thing...

Thanks for all the input! I'll get some pictures up as soon as I get the pockets figured out.

OffKilter