My last look into this was Moog still was decent brand. At the time I recall folks spoke well of Morris_Quay (sp?), but I have no experience with them myself.

In fact right now, my recollection is that every ball joint and tie rod end on my car is Moog. Idler probably is too. Had used some TRW at one time. Like you, I bought a kit that had some real junk mixed in with the decent stuff. Either "Mr Suspension" or PST - I bought from both when I started on the car. I thin they were both actually Kanter operations. "Mr Suspension" almost certainly was. I remember greasing the inner tie rod ends and the grease came out in circle around the seam. Those tie rod ends saw zero miles!