Well, after nearly 5 years of pulling hair from my now bald head, it's here.
Once again, the "paint" is crap... it appears that they didn't do a repaint after all (see previous post Aug 10, regarding the email that they sent). The substituted paint color is actually pretty cool, kind of a subtle pearl metallic, but it's covered in what appear to be goosebumps, lol. There is also still some cracking in the finish, similar to the previous frame (one of the reasons for the warranty frame), just in one area and not as bad.
As mentioned before, it was also supposed to have modular dropouts so that I could convert between geared and single speed, but I don't really care anymore.
I'm done here. I'll probably just strip both frames and do my own finishes.