Can you elaborate a little on WHY writing to the same eeprom area several times a DAY makes someone an "#$%#$%" ?

If the lifetime is 100000 writes, that's a lot of days !

Well, that was in the 10.000 writes days so 10 writes/day ~ 3 years. Many of the units (-96 design) have already passed the guaranteed lifetime, I am anticipating the first obituaries any day.

Erik