I understand about the fuel too. But my problem is the springs in the trigger seem to go to hell on me real fast. I gues if I tried buying a quality lighter I might not have that problem
These are part and parcel. If you use crappy fuel, you will spend more time trying to light the lighter, therefore the mechanisms will wear down and break. Buying a quality lighter, and putting crappy fuel into it will result in the same problem.
I have 3 cigar lighters, 1 is the cheapy $10 colibri firefox <or something like that> that I bought a few years ago, lights every time, I use good fuel in it. Another is the torch insert that I use in the Zippo that I've had for 20 years, only problem with that is the small fuel capacity. 3rd is a cheapy triple flame that I paid maybe $10 for. I use the exact same fuel in each of them, and I have never had a problem with them lighting.
A friend of mine, spent $100 on a Colibri triple flame, that he's used cheapy fuel in, and it never lights, and he has to send it to them for repair.
Think about it a little bit. The fuel you use, is as important as what you use the fuel in.
Alan