Met another 996 owner with a blown engine.

I was visiting IBM customers in Seattle last week and one of the guys I met had a 2001 996 which was cool but the engine had just blown so not so cool. We exchanged sob stories and he's waiting to see if the extended warranty will pay for the engine. These blown engines are a major pain for 996 owners. I've no idea how prevalent they are but I personally know 3 owners of 996s whose engines died and given the cars aren't exactly common in Minnesota then that is pretty bad. If I buy one again then its a GT3 or Turbo for me as these seem to be the only models with motorsport derived engines and hence they are sorted out properly. The new 09 997 engines looks like it's getting a fair bit of testing and appears to have a real dry sump finally so thats cool. Maybe the engines in the 09 997s will be better. Who knows anyway, without statistics, I just may know the only 3 dead 996s around...