George,

Glad to hear things are well with you.

The reason I guessed it was confined to the USA is that most(except for one) of the complaints on the forums were from USA buyers.

I received this from Yamaha Canada Head office.... "we have not had a single complaint and no service bulletin was issued from Japan".

All the best,

Ian





[This message has been edited by ianmcnll (edited 10-05-2007).]