A lot of new stuff in the last four weeks: I did receive my Canon EOS 40D ahead of schedule: Amazon.com promised me an estimated shipping date of 9/24, the camera did however arrive on 9/6. That was a nice surprise. I knew that my Lightroom 1.1 would not support the new 40D RAW format, so I shot RAW+JPEG. That, and the much larger RAW files and the fact that it’s so easy to just keep the finger on the shutter and take 6 pictures per second until the buffer that holds 16 RAW images is full caused me quite a scare: I filled up my 2GB memory card in no time… I guess 2GB just does not cut it anymore 
Adobe also surprised me by releasing Lightroom 1.2 about a week after I received my camera on 9/13 - I was expecting at least a month until I would have RAW support in Lightroom.
The default settings for the 40D are much better than any of the defaults I’ve seen from Lightroom before. The pictures are beautiful, and of course the additional resolution is great. The camera is “just another Canon”, so getting used to it was no big deal. The biggest problem I had with it was (as usual) to get the strap on the camera