Well I guess I'm pretty lucky....
Went shopping for a new box yesterday and stupid Target/BestBuy didn't have them, but the guy at BestBuy gave me an attitude as if only the Elite version will come out now and you're a low life for even trying to buy the less expensive version. I barely controlled my right fist which begged to be driven into his face and walked away. The Target guy was a LOT nicer and actually said that the elites aren't selling anywhere the # they expected and they'll be stocking premiums from now on as they sell the best. So none of them had a regular premium or core and off I went to F.Y.E....didn't expect them to have anything and man i was wrong, they had it and I was sure it'd probably be a bad version but it actually turned out to be Samsung MS25.....I was happy. An hour later I had it flashed and running. I was surprised how quickly I dismantle the boxes now.
Worked perfectly with my MSI Diamond p6n Nvidia 590 mobo.
The point of this little rant is that i flashed to 1.2c and tried a bad disc, glad i had the 1.2c after reading this post.
Anyway, c4e rules.