Black Elite Jasper: ACQUIRED!
I had actually purchased a black Elite Falcon at the beginning of the summer, but it <cough> suddenly developed problems right about the same time as these new Jasper Elites started appearing... Fortunately, I was still within my 90-day return policy, so the store was nice enough to swap my <cough> defective Falcon for a brand-new Jasper. I only switched the actual console itself, so I still have the HDMI cable, digital-optical adapter, Halo 3 / Fable 2, etc. Plus, I got back $60 since the price had dropped!
I just attached my original hard drive, and everything is working beautifully. Do I need to do the "license transfer" process? All my downloaded Xbox Live Arcade games are already working fine, as are some videos I purchased. I'll apparently need to delete & reinstall game to the hard drive, but other than that I haven't found any problems with the console switch.
Oh, and for those of you hunting for black Elite Jaspers: the local Best Buy had a ton of 'em in the new white boxes, and every one I checked had a July 2009 manufacturing date. I checked the amperage on one, and confirmed it's a Jasper. Target had a mix: some store had the new white-box Jaspers, others had the older grey-box Falcons. I didn't see any older units packaged in the new white boxes. It's certainly possible, so you should double-check the manufacturing date. And the amperage, if possible.