I got the same camera a couple months ago and to date it has runied two rolls of film (didn' t rewind) and the third i took to a dark closet to open and sure enough, the film wasn' t rewound so I helped it out and got it to rewind. Kind of pisses you off. I think I will try doing what you did. They take great pictures but if they are going to sell them they need to work, and work consistently. There' s nothing worse that having a camera that exposes all your film. Have you used the black one yet? Better results? Did they hassel you about having trouble/wanting to return with the green camera?