My camera made it down to Mack Camera on September 3rd (UPS was super fast), they are "in process" of shipping it to Canon for repair!
I did think about that Craig and if I get a sense that I will not have my camera back in time for our October trip, I will probably do just that. ; Might have to try out a full frame camera while I'm at it! ; Hopefully my camera gets shipped directly from Canon and doesn't have to go back to Mack Camera.
Re: Canon 40D Has Returned! Finally got my camera back from Mack Camera Repair. ; They had to ship it to Canon for replacement of the motor assembly. ; They also: "adjusted focus and exposure, cleaned C-MOS, updated firmware, cleaned and checked all functions to good working order." The firmware is the same version I already had so I'm not sure why they "updated" it. ; I also noticed that some dirt that was in my viewfinder is no longer there, so I'm happy about that. Camera was shipped to Mack on 9/3 and just got it back today 9/22. ; I guess with the holiday in there the turn around time wasn't too bad.