No need to beat yourself up Uwe. The screws really are just cosmetic and a nod to the past! I forgive you, even if Dave doesn't.
So, you'll see in the picture below that the pup is way low on the e-string side. You can see where I jacked up the screw in a a vain effort to improve output. You'd think they could use better foam at the factory. I was out of high density foam, so I stuffed the cavity with two pieces of low density stuff. All I wanted was to push the screws up tight into the holes and it worked. The bass and e-string sound 100% better, duh! It's going to practice Wednesday night.
So, A word to Midtown owners. If your pup screws look recessed at all, like mine did on both of my Midtown models, the pup is probably sitting low in the cavity and needs a boost! Hey Al, I remember you said recently to look at the simply things/fixes first! You were so right! Now I gotta fix my cherry Midtown and SG bass next.
Here's how it came from the factory, ugh!
String alignment looks good, but they sure didn't waste any magnet on the e and g-strings. Just enough and no more!
Here's the foam treatment. Notice that the screws now fill the cover holes. Before, they were probably 1/8" or more below the holes. Yikes, how dumb.