The Zastava, which is imported by Century Arms, is a good rifle. Just order the normal ak and buy the folding stock separate. Also make sure that they replace the trigger with a Tapco. Your index finger will be much appreciative.
The horror stories have to do with the milling they had to do to expand the size of the magazine port. It used to be that AK's could only be imported if they only accepted 10 round magazines. This of course was during one of the famous assault weapons bans of the 90's. After the ban expired they had a mess of weapons that would only accept a single stack magazine. As you could imagine no one wants an AK that will only accept single stack 10 round mags, so they had to mill out the magazine port on those weapons so they could accept the double stack 30 round mags. This caused the mags to wobble and wiggle, a trait not attractive to AK owners. They solved the wiggle magazine problem by making an adapter that fit the milled out magazine ports and stopped the mag wiggle.
Anyhow, since the AW ban expired they now import weapons that accept the 30 round double stack with no wiggle.
