I think Panis outqualifying Trulli in the end should not degrade Trulli. We have just recently established that Panis himself was a good qualifier as well, and as always drivers have fluctuations. I think Trulli was a genuine qualifying master already back then, the only thing that was missing, was reputation (reputation comes with years and especially GOOD cars).

Also if you put Ralf S. down, it will bring Zanardi down, which makes sense. I don't feel Zanardi was quicker than Hill or Herbert, even in qualifying.

I don't feel Frentzen was slower than Barrichello, Villeneuve, Coulthard in qualis. HHF qualified quite a lot at the front, even split the two McLarens on fast circuits.