Sounds like as you describe m8, collapsed on the inside.
Coilovers CAN be a TAD hardcore, but the likes of my own are very userfriendly, beit a little noisey(compressing noise and not clunky), but tbh i love em! Not OTT like some, but if you do some good/quick homework, you can come off well. IIRC there's a group buy on KYB shocks in Scoobynet GB's.