I think the character also has about 80+ karma built up. And, there is also some background resentment on my part (character aimed a helicopter gunship at a previous character of mine and blew our mission).
Judging by the drift of the thread, the positive quality is not an issue, then.
To my knowledge, everything seems legal, aside from possible abuse of Edge. It looks like in part, the difficulty of the 'run is not being adjusted for the presence of a combat-optimized nigh-prime-runner. I also have to be careful about when and how I bring up rules mis-interpretations, due to my near-eidetic memory of the rules of the game, outside of magic and a few esoteric, seldom-used ones.
Oh, I think I mis-stated the ability... it is the one where the Adept has to roll to see how many hits' worth the attribute improves, then soaks later. Err... come to think of it, I don't recall him rolling any soak rolls (and I was sitting next to the player in question) the last few games...