Ahh well damn. Will the non SDHC 4GB cards work? (once formatted they would be like 3.6 or so GB, so it should be within FAT16 limits) I will try and get one of those. That should be enough for what I need for now.

Does loading Swiss in this way mean that I can use an SDHC card as my boot media or will I still need to hot swap? I am getting the adapter at the end of the week and already have a 16GB MicroSD (with the MicroSD to SD adapter) and would like to avoid buying a 2GB card. :P If that doesn't work, then...

Connecting the wrong polarity will kill the power regulator board. Believe me, I had this happen to me about back in 2007. It was a DOL-001 GameCube, so I just bought a non working unit with a bad disc drive of eBay and swapped drives so that the eBay unit worked again. Probably could have replaced ...