Canon and Lexar bugs cause lost pics on DSLRs

If you've just handed over $5K for a digital SLR and assume it's going to take the best pics you've ever seen, you might be surprised to find that it's actually eating your pics, leaving you with a hung camera and a blank flash card.
But that's apparently what's happening with several of Canon's DSLRs, including the EOS-1Ds Mark II (pictured) and EOS-1D Mark II. Apparently, if you shoot in the handy JPEG+RAW mode and hit the Display button immediately after shooting, the display goes white, the camera locks up and you lose every pic in the buffer. Canon is working on a firmware upgrade; in the meantime, make sure the card-access light is off before you hit Display. Another glitch occurs with Lexar's Professional Series 80x CompactFlash cards and several Canon models, including the EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D
Mark II, EOS 20D, EOS Digital Rebel XT, EOS 350D Digital and EOS Kiss Digital N. According to Canon, images captured on the Lexar cards with these cams can vanish "in extremely rare instances" (we have no idea what that means, but we assume it's similar to the "extraordinary circumstances" under which Senate Democrats will be allowed to filibuster judicial nominations). Lexar promises a firmware fix shortly. For now, you're stuck.