I'm sure jackbrown meant no offense, mr.giroro, the sense I get from his post is that he was just checking the basics. Since
you are the sort to run such basic checks, I bet you'd be shocked at how many
don't. 
I've worked help-desk phones some, and it never ceases to amaze me the sorts of things that folks will do without thinking them through. Forget that old saw about the "any" key -- I've had folks call about problems with a Lotus Notes application, and only after talking to them for 20 minutes do I finally puzzle out that they're not actually
in Lotus Notes -- once I got them out of Acrobat or IE or whatever it was and into Notes, their problem miraculously disappeared. Of course, I had to have about 45 minutes of de-tox before I could talk to anyone coherently after that one.
Anyway, that sort of experience tends to teach a body to not take anything for granted, especially the basics.
As for the card being SanDisk, on the Streets of China's cities, you can probably buy products branded SanDisk that SanDisk has never even
considered making. Some of those sellers really
are that sneaky and unscrupulous. Unless you specify where you got the card, we wouldn't have any way of knowing without asking.
Anyway, I'm glad that you've got the answer to your question. And you can at least be glad that you have an iLiad's 4GB limitation -- the Sony Readers are limited to 2GB on SD cards.
