Ah, particularly frustrating "mystery" of the old XFi. I look foward to quiet times after Woodward or Carlisle and sharing a cold beer or two, saying "do your remember when..."
FYI, I pushed the issue of relating serial numbers a membership numbers in order to aid in creating a registry of cars... The seniority issue is solved by putting the join date in the member number. EXAMPLE: John Smith owns a Coupe w/ VIN 012345 and Joins on Feb 1, 2009 his member number will be "012345-0090102" 009= year, 01 = day, 02=month. If he sells his car and the new owner registers and gets a later date. If John Smith is trading to a SRT6 - we will assign a new number combining his VIN with his original join date. So we can keep track of the cars and seniority pretty simply. And, create a history for the cars - previous owners - mods - etc.
All in all, we should try to be more excited about our cars than our registry numbers...

I was XFi member #142 but I will gladly give it up for a more cohesive community; and I still will hold onto the old membership card as a keepsake.
NOTE: Charter members will have a special color membership card to identify themselves.
I spoke to patpur earlier today and I believe things are taking shape nicely; we continue to welcome your support - we can't do it without you; so you are important to us and the community.