Well, not really. Implying that we sad, misguided Olympus customers were ALL unhappy with our E-1s from the day they were annonced is, er, stretching it. It took a good 6 months.
Actually I recall a day in June 2004, in Iceland, where a bunch of photographers huddled in a minibus over their 20Ds and 1Ds MkIs all stared in amazement as I went out in the pouring rain with my E-1, ducked behind a torrential waterfall, took a couple of shots and came back, with the camera still working fine.
The shots were rubbish, mind you. I was never one to listen to advice :-)