LVNV Funding

I had a Sears credit card that was charged off and LVNV Funding took over. I was contacting last June from a Attorney's office regarding paying this bill. They asked me to set up monthly payments which I did. I gave them 4 post dated checks for four months. After the four months I spoke to the attorney's office again in October to set up 4 more post dated payments. Well in November to my surprise I received a summons from my local court house in reference to this account. I called the attorney's office and asked why they had started to file a judgement against me after I was making the agreed payments per month. I was told it was the procedure and basically the only way to stop the judgement was to either settle the account or pay it in full. At the time I did not have the funds to be able to pay it in full and I did not want to settle it because I have been working very hard on improving my credit score. So last week was my last payment that I had set up and I spoke to them yesterday to set up a few more payments until May when I can pay it in full. They refused to accept my payments and I was told that I either had to pay a large monthly payment and still take the judgement or I could settle the account now and it would stop the judgement and it would not show up on my credit report. I went ahead and took the settlement even though I would rather of paid it in full because I didn't want the judgement on my report. I asked them to supply me a letter stating that the account was paid in full and that they would not report on my credit report that it was settled. I was told that was no problem and today I received my letter and it does state it was setttled. Arrggg I called again and was told that it was the way it had to be. So my question is once the settlement payment is processed this month I plan on calling this LVNV Funding and explaining to them what this attorney's office has said and done and I am going to request that LVNV Funding either remove themselves from my report or report that my account has been satified. I do not want it to say settled. My husband and I are buying a new home in a couple months and I do not want my credit hurt by this anymore. Any advice would be helpful. Thank you.