From one of those above mentioned pinheads, I say give those GA pinheads a couple of days - as they barely survived a DNS change last year - this upgrade is definitely going to take a while to unscrew.
I'm surprised they went live, I poked around the beta last week and it wasn't ready. Oh well, they didn't axe thee or me.

IF the response time and the search engine get fixed...it'll suck less than, ummmm, it does now.