lol. Well the PS2Reality divx player had a countdown too. I remember logging on to the site during the last few seconds of the countdown (pure coincidence i swear) and it got to zero, then started going into the minus numbers...
carried on like that for the day. next day the site was down and i managed to get it from one of the mirrors.
moral of the story? a countodown will start going into minus numbers if it isn't managed properly. not that i care - i'll be

when it's released so i'll know what happened on sunday morning!
good luck with the preparations and break a pad (leg) - better make it a rubbish 3rd party pad, or else it could put the release date back
