I ordered mine Sunday 6 November @ 23:00 in the UK and had it in delivered to Central London from Belgium by lunchtime Wednesday 9 November, so Nokia were definately not sold out of UK/Ireland stock by Nov 3rd - it would seem that different countries had different allocations. My order number is 200886.

Nokia do appear to have executed this launch appalingly badly - at least now there is official notice that supply will not resume until Jan 2006, one can only assume the batch sent to the US will be their last for a while too. Bummer.