I knew to a certain degree. This is why I'm not really an early adopter anymore. I got kind of tired of this kind of drama, which previously used to be fun. In this case, I wasn't expecting it to be *this* much fun. :) I still got the thing for $2400 delivered, and the new one is $3150 delivered. Hopefully the new one is more reliable, but it should be, since the list of "improvements" pretty much exactly overlaps the list of problems I've had with the R-20.