Ok, here are those images you guys wanted.
After taking it out and booting it up, it stuck on the logo screen.
I read that this is a hard drive read failure in one of the FAQs and about how some of these came shipped with a bad cable from the factory. Well I guess I was one of those lucky few. So I carefully opened it up and fixed the cable as suggested on the riocar.org site (nice videos!). Now it boots up great. Not so pristine as it was yesterday but still is basically brand new and never used.
Any more questions? any offers? I'm in San Francisco, CA and I will ship anywhere as long as you pay for the shipping and insurance.
-Darren