Same here. I got one of these cards from Zyxel as a rebate and also used it right away. From the looks of the screenshot, the rebate processing company that Creative uses is the same one that Zyxel uses.
Time Warner does NOT own RCN.
Pretty much all hard drive manufacturers do this as well. The hard drive will have a date of manufacture on the label, and that's when they start the warranty. I've purchased a brand new hard, checked the warranty when I opened it, and found that the warranty had already expired. It had apparently been in a Fry's warehouse for at least a year. An email to Western Digital with a copy of the receipt fixed that problem.
The yellow impurity is still kind of there. Veteran GLs can overcome fear, thereby overcoming the yellow impurity weakness. Hal, Kyle, Guy, John, & Kilowog have been shown overcoming it. Rookie GLs are still susceptible to the yellow impurity until they overcome fear (yellow) on their own.
Alan Scott is no longer in charge of Checkmate. He was "fired" after the first or second storyline in Checkmate. Mr. Terrific was appointed to replace him.
The XP installation process is also antiquated compared to Vista's, which I've found to be one of the easiest OS installations that I've ever done. I have a Toshiba M400 tablet and XP installation on it is the most difficult thing I've done on any PC due to it's weird SATA drivers. Vista installed w/o issue.