I think I remember seeing that they're trying to now get them out ready for next summer, so summer 09? And as stated before the pushback was due to a midi glitch and them fulfilling backorders on mod50s and m4s, and i'm sure with getting the egnater GC line up and running.
A while back I remember jeff saying that the first run of e2s will be sold fully loaded, but I'm not sure if that's changed or not. From what's been posted it seems like it may have been.