but the only remaining one is that my !@#$$ soundcard won't work. Waaaah, I want my mp3s...
I had that as well. There's a bundle of almost all sound card drivers on CD3... you should be able to put in the drivers using the Device Driver Install Program in System Setup.
That, and I thought eCS was going to come with IBM's new netscape-6 based web browser? I can't find that either...
No, that's part of the Upgrade Protection plan. Including that in the base system would have upped the price by a substantive chunk of money. SSI managed to swing being able to pass all fixes and device driver updates sans charge to customers, but new software (like the IBM browser) requires them to pay a full SWC fee... which adds somewhere around 50 bucks to the cost of the base system.