at the risk of picking at that scab a bit longer, i'm going to toss out a comment regarding people still waiting for the public availability of centos 5.4.
here:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083743.html
About ten minutes after your email, I got one from our local computer shop.
"Windows 7 coming soon!!!" no date. no reason. Just churn.
Windows 7 will be out on the 22nd Oct 2009. Your local computer Shop did not try hard enough to find this out?