Looks like the Great Zune Massacre of 2008 was a day 366 issue. Again, someone forgot to throw out the code from the lowest ten percent of the Stack-Rank system. Sorry to sound harsh, but this is type of thing will flunk you out of Programming 101. I don't even want to get started on the QA failure, but it is even worse.
Semi-Kudos to the Zune Team. There was a notice on the support page shortly after the original post acknowledging the problem and indicating they were working on it. Microsoft also got word out through its MSNBC subsidiary as...