So for everyone here who says that Microsoft dosnt give a damn about their customers and such, I got a call from a Microsoft rep randomly yeterday on my cell phone. She was very kind (american, suprisingly

) and told me that because my XBOX 360 had broken and it had taken awhile to get me a box to ship mine in due to the large number of claimes, I was getting 3-months of XBOX Live for free. This seems to be the norm rather then the exception, as there are a few other people I know that had their 360s break and are getting calls about free XBOX Live.
I think this was a good way for Microsoft to handle it, as they replaced all the consoles for FREE and gave free XBOX live to replace the time that you were unable to play the console and then some.
Am currently waiting to see how Sony handles the ForceFeedback controllers for early adapters.