As the least tech savy guy in hisory I saw this as my one lone chance to be able to say 'you heard it here first'.
You are on it! Thanks. Will burn the FW soon.
It seems* to me that these FWs always come at the same time as a major release. In this case LOTR. I remember TDK was another time. Perhaps it's just coinkydink, or maybe they think that releasing new updates at the time of such releases gets some non-updaters to finally get around to it . . .
I realize that my LOTR preorder never made it to order status, so I paid the extra $4 for next day delivery. Making dinner for 8 on Wed, and it would be a bummer not to have the movies on hand!