I was one of the pre-orders. I didn't demand it show up on my doorstep the day after I pre-ordered. CL said that it would be shipping by X date and that we could preorder to get one of the first shipment out. I couldn't even pre-order until the program was all packaged up and waiting for the CDs to be burned. How this forced CL to release P5 early, I don't understand. Waiting until the actual release date to place the order instead of doing the pre-order would have made no difference in when the product shipped, only when I would have received it.