Thanks for the votes. I've pinged MS, and been patient waiting for the one year anniversary of SP3 to roll by, but no responses. My guess is most of MS is on holiday this week, and that's OK. However we do need the patch to come.

Great analogy on the car. Software does require maintenance and we should expect it. What we should not expect is fundamental errors being left in the product when it's released. I don't think we get that, though SQL SS2K5 had the issue of mirroring not working in RTM and enabled in SP1.