1 - Not really random, but highly annoying. 2 - It doesn't delete articles whatsoever. RSS is not supposed to work that way. It's just supposed to give you the absolute latest headlines. Anything older shouldn't be seen anymore because they are no longer the latest. 3 - Happens when you check just after an update, but not that often. 4 - Never saw this happen, but I can tell you that I was quite paranoid about it when I bought my N800 because I had to get mine imported from the US into Canada back before it was offered up here and the last thing I wanted to do was ship it back to Nokia in the US. 5 - I've never even tried it so it doesn't affect me.