i just found out that toyota revised the brakes and replaced the 235mm rotors with 255 mm rotors in 07/2000, so the first echo's that came out had smaller rotors... that sucks, because noone makes brake pads for those echos I bet... not kvr, forget brembo, hawk doesn't even list the echo at all.
I remember the oem replacement brembo's i had on my 3 series had the same problem. perhaps that's what the problem is, altho it seems unlikely. I shou8ld perhaps invest into oem rotors.