Interesting read here about the 360 failure rate, and reason behind it:

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/digitaljoystick/archives/129866.asp

Hope my Elite doesn't kick the bucket

It's around 30%, and all will probably fail early. This quarter they are expecting 1 M failures, most of those Xenons. Some of those are repeat failures. Life expectancy is all over the map because the design has very little margin for most of the important parameters. That means it's not a fault tolerant design. So a good unit may last a couple of years, while a bad unit can fail in hours.

Not good

Whoops, guess the topic title is a bit misleading!

Yer read that, glad I got rid of mine, was as noisy as a feckin' jet engine anyway :/