adams, I've heard the northern winters can be rough on batteries, luckily I don't have that problem. I hope it works out for you. I too have heard good things about the 1.3. Hopefully Stealth will work out the problems with the 3.0 before losing a valuable customer base.

And yes, the cuddeback does have passwords and other security features, but I don't use them. I haven't taken the time to figure them out yet.