WOW...after getting home from my futile trip to the Best Buy in Conroe, TX this morning at 5:30AM, I got home all depressed and while going to post about my dashed hopes on www.xbox.com on the forums, I saw that someone had just posted that you could buy them online at www.bestbuy.com.  So, I went and sure enough, they where available.  I ordered one and it says that it should arrive to my house anywhere from 12/20 to 12/23 going ground for shipping.  YEAH!!!!!  Then I went back to look at the description to see if it included the bonus remote and they where sold out.  MAN, they went quick.