The compression sounds fine, but both the crank and the cam timing marks should be dead on (when you turn the motor in the right direction, turning it by hand back-ward will show the slack.
Does it run poor both hot and cold?
That one funny colored cylender may have a bad injector. I think the EGR valve is worth a second look.
It is kinda common for the 98+ fuel pumps to go bad, but I'm not so sure thats your problem.
It's kinda strange your one plug was smashed closed, you could of dropped a valve seat.
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