i went through three airports in the last week (ONT, ABIA and DFW, and the only time i ever had a problem was at DFW. i had to take my portable DVD player out of my carry on, even though it said on their signs that only full size dvd players and laptops had to be removed. and that was only on my return flight. so reading this was kind of nice, in a wierd way. at least im not the only one to deal with the random crap.