I had thought it had been picked up in other places, but fair enough if it wasn't (see op reply below). Like i said I'm just being cynical...

I know that it was about international banking as i read the the story when it posted; but how many of those take 3 months to sort out? None that i know of.

It always sounded to me like apple were trying fob the op off as long as they could till they fixed their code ... again, im a cynical bugger, but i'm glad they got it sorted for the op.