It doesn't look too great on time scales, but I believe production is now firmed up (we thought that before, though!).
We're getting a few players today which will be shown at our booth (#30) at the MP3 Summit in San Diego next week. We'll then get a small batch on or around Tuesday 27th which will ship immediately to clients, so some real customers will have players the week after next. Another 1000-ish players will start to ship around a week later, and we have another 1000 queued up behind those, pending availability of a few components.
We're still on track to clear the backlog over the next couple of months.
Rob