Mrcohanian, I sympathise with you greatly - if I had spent that much money I would want a new car not a new engine... Sure there's nothing wrong with a new engine, but it's the principle that counts - spending so much hard-earned to buy into a supposedly reliable brand and then having it break on you so soon!

If you bought a really expensive diamond ring from Cartier and the stone fell out of the ring, would you be happy with the store just repairing it and handing it back to you, or would you demand and expect a completely new ring? I know what I would do...

I actually like the 997 and will be very disappointed if it turns out they haven't resolved the RMS issues (and even more so if they end up putting this wet sump block into the GT3/Turbo!) :-(

I hope your case gets resolved in a satisfactory way for you...