>Many cards have little tabs which write protect; Did you check that?

Thanks for the suggestion. The 128 MB that comes with it oddly does have a write protect tab, but trying the card in either position didn't fix things. The 256 card did not have a write protect tab. Regardless, the camera was able to write to it, so so should the N800

>You need to physically disconnect the cable in order for the n800 to remove the USB connection. Just dismounting the drive on your OS is not enough.

Yeah, if I just read from the disk, I could unmount it (physically uncabling), but if I tried to write, it still wouldn't unmount (even with the physical cabling)

>my battery life started to fall off dramatically.

For a while I thought my battery couldn't hold a charge overnight, but then I decided I might just be having that "needs to be plugged in for first boot" issue that has been reporting.

When I send it back to Nokia, I'll bring up this issue as well.

Thanks all,

The Darkwinner