Well I was going to say congrat's on the B&W, I really love their case styling and bondi blue really appeals to me for some reason.

Bummer about the rev 1 mobo issue. That is what made me get rid of my B&W tower. Well that and the fact that I have a Sawtooth and a Beige G3 MT.

Hope you get the machine working. You could get a PCI IDE / SATA card and roll like that. Heck you could even get a combo card and have your firewire and USB 2.0 support.