> Anyway, he said you're SOL if they don't work, but you still bought them?!

Well, 'SOL' wasn't his exact words, but that is just what they amounted to.

I had no reason to believe that there was anything wrong with them, I was 
expecting him to have enough knowledge about what he was selling to 
guarantee that there would not be a compatability problem.

> I think that's insane.  You could have walked two blocks down the street
> and bought Micron DIMMS from GNS.

Perhaps I should have. I have never been there, but I had the feeling that most
people thought less of the service at GNS. Next time I am down that way, I 
should probably stop in.