Great to hear that it worked out for you Bun. You mentioned that you bought you also snagged a Kingston 4gb from buy.com? Well I recieved my 4gb today and I could definatly see a difference in the build quality between the two. The Kingston is clearly a better put together card. I dont know if that means anything with data retention or failure rate, but it just didn't look as flimsy as the Patriot.
Still, a deal is a deal!