Just thought I'd post some good news in this thread.  I received one miner yesterday.  Both of the Avalon boards were loose and jumping around in the case but amazingly nothing was broken.  there was a pile of screws and a few transistors in the bottom of the case as well (which apparently must have been from another machine.  One of the Avalon boards wasn't hooked up.  Once both boards were attached I was able to mine at full speed (averaging around 200gh/s on the guild site)