Souvenir Linking Rubber Bands by Paul Harris just came in today.  This is great and I'd strongly recommend it.  Basically Paul has figured out a way to manufacture rubber bands that are linked together in the manufacturing process; thus no more slits, glued together bands, etc.  The instructional DVD that is included is hilarious (filmed by Joe Russell) and very thorough.  It includes care of the bands, a few great switches, CMH, etc.  

Speaking of Paul Harris, as some of you may know there was a very small precutting of defective True Astonishments disks.  The replicator immediately sent us replacement units that we have been sending out to anyone who has contacted us with issues.  In the mean time, the replicator also took back all of the remaining sets, unassembled them, destroyed all the DVDs (good and bad to play it safe), ran a complete rerun of all DVDs, and have reassembled and resent them to us.  We received these a few days back. Between fixing any existing issues and the new rerun of all units we should see this problem disappear soon.