Man, Steve, that sounds awfully irksome. My own experience, though, is totally different. I don't use floodlights or high output lights, just regular medium-to-low-wattage lamps, indoor and outdoor. I began the switchover from incandescent about 4 years ago, and I have yet to replace a single CFL. Several months ago a bulb burned out while my mother was in the room with me (she's a skeptic when it comes to CFLs) and she started to do one of those very annoying 'ha, ha, told ya so's until a quick inspection revealed the culprit to be an old leftover incandescent. I'm sure I'll weed any others out eventually in the same way.