Well, I was wondering why with so many glowing reviews the actual product seems to be flawed. Noting the possibility of a particular model of power supply causing several of those issues I wondered how many of those particular models made it to reviewers. 

SN41G2 reviews and power supply model information (if found)... 

OCWorkbench - ACHME 
http://www.ocworkbench.com/2003/shuttle/sn41g2/sn41g2gallery2.htm 

Anandtech - ACHME 
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1764&p=14 

HardOCP - ACHME 
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDE2LDI= 

Hardware.fr - ACHME 
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/451/page1.html 

tomshardware - ACHME 
http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20030131/shuttle-08.html 


Hexus.net - no pictues showing the label, no mention of the brand 
Sudhian - no pictures, no mention 
Tech-Report - no pictures, no mention 
LostCircuits - no pictures, mentioned 120W through 12V but no brand 
Tbreak - no pictures, no mention 

More digging to come. I smell a rat. A really dirty rat.