If I'm still around by then (one week after my 99th birthday), I guess I'll have to worry about it but I expect I'll have bigger issues   

They send you an email when it ships.

The shipped kernel works fine with my 4 GB SDHC card (Sandisk).

OOPS!   

It actually fits better that way.  Thanks!

I tried plugging a Sandisk 4 GB SDHC card into my Sheevaplug, but it doesn't seem to be recognized.  I get the following in dmesg:

Empty flash at 0x1e21d994 ends at 0x1e21e000

but have no idea if that relates to the SD card.  There aren't any new devices created in /dev.

Ideas?

Ordered mine on May 12, received on June 17, up and running on June 18.  Nice 

That will work, but the Sheevaplug also comes with a power cord (U.S. plug).  You need to open up the case to remove the fitted plug and that reveals a socket where the cord connects.  It is a fairly common socket type and you can probably find a cord with one of the European plugs which would work.

I see that the larger capacity SD cards are labeled "SDHC".  Is the reader in the plug compatible with these or only the smaller "SD" cards?

One of the suggestions I saw was to have /etc/rc.local run ntpdate to update the system clock at bootup.  If you run 'hwclock --systohc' after that, the hardware clock should also be updated.