This isn't peanuts, this is $45000. And it's still locked, as I hear, and people are going to court. This is around the total USD transaction volume of MtGox (and maybe BTC in general) for around a week? Or more? I'm not sure, but it's a lot. All this talk about "scammers", "thiefs", "security vulnerabilities" etc may be affecting BTC in general, and even BTC price in the market. You don't trust a brand new currency/stock/whatever when you are feeling insecure about it.

I hope this issue is resolved ASAP and everybody gets their money back, even if they don't make the profit they expected.