I know this thread is 12 days old, but sheding some lite on the subject, just becuase you bought it in 2006 and it was 1 week old, doesnt mean it had the 2006 OS, it probably had the 2005 and thus you had simply done theupgrade to 2006. There has only been 2 2006 releases, the BETA (which would have never found its way onto a retail version that was sew and the Version that has been available since end of June.