Hello Rob....I never really learned guitar (but was a good player)...until I spent about 2 years studying jazz chords...in various inversions and postions all over the guitar neck....then I became a really good player.
So...use your knowledge to your advange. If I were you id practice jazz chords switching between the chord and an individual scale attached to the chord... for example play Bb7#9 and then switch to a mixolydian or half/whole scale...eventually working in some jazzy blues runs between chords... work in other chords such as ii V Is... major and minor... keep playing the runs while using pick and fingers hybrid picking technique... practice in cycle of 4ths up and down the neck...playing the scales linearly, up and down the neck and across the strings...pick up some Martin Taylor finger style stuff and his instructional book too... do that stuff and you will be able to play jazz, fingerstyle, country and rock too...
If you can find it, pick up George M. Smith's Modern Guitar Chord Method (best $10 i ever spent)
http://www.allbookstores.com/book/0786603437/Modern_Guitar_Chord_Technique.html
and practice, practice, practice...
A couple of good picking and fingerign excercises including playing the following up and down the strings past the 12th fret... and then back down again in the following left hand fingering patterns:
1234
4321
124
134
421
431
etc. It will sound like meaningless gobblygook (cause it is) but if you did that for 20-30 minutes per day slowly increasing the tempo of the metronome + playing the jazz chords an hour a day...youd have your physicality down in about 1 year or so...maybe 2 years....then you could start developing a repoitre...