Grayfox,
Sherwood is doing what they can or so they say. They finally took care of me but it took a lot of calls and bitch'n to get them to pony up. In my humble opinion, I expect that they have lost a number of sales due to this problem.
I will agree that it is not a serious problem if the seal blows underwater, and yes the regulator still works. My source of heartburn was having to relay to these guys that "Yup your right and this is not a problem to the seansoned diver who hears "POP" underwater and quietly says #$*(&$#)$^&)#$#@)&$ REGULATOR underwater and then ends the dive".....