UAL never bothered to check my contact information prior to recalling me after 5 years on furlough. This time around, I've only been on furlough for 2 1/2 years.

As I stated in my above post, I talked at length to the guy that called me. He said that he was a furloughee working at UAL and they had some slow time so they were directed to contact all furloughees and check to make sure that their information was up to date.
I give whomever at UAL kudos for being proactive on this matter.
As far as me getting a job offer at CAL, it looks like I'm going to miss the April cut by about 20 pilots. As of now, the plan is for CAL to shut down training for the summer and restart training in the fall. Of course this is a fluid situation and they could end up leaving CAL's training center open all summer, although I've been told that it's very unlikely - CAL's business model is very lean; they flush the training department during the summer and have every pilot out flying the line. Northwest had the exact same model. You can do that if you're a smaller company; it's much harder to do it as a large company. With the continuing retirement of 757s on the UAL side, I doubt that we see any recalls on the UAL side before 2014 in spite of 25 retirements/month.