Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

I just picked up my XL-7 yesterday and have been tinkering with it 
all day.  No probs so far but haven't started a project yet so I'll 
save my opinions for later.  But one thing that a friend who owns an 
XL-1 pointed out was that they do not appear to contain the same 
preset banks.  There's some overlap but many differences.  Granted I 
assumed the XL-7 came with the XL-1 preset ROMs so I have only myself 
to blame for the confusion.  But why are they partially different?  
Was there some kind of sound incompatibility or something?

Also I heard a disturbing rumor from not one but two seperate 
equipment dealers yesterday.  When I went to dealer A to pick up the 
unit the guy (who is usually very knowledgable about these things) 
told me he had sold out and had no plans to reorder because E-MU was 
discontinuing the product.  Scratching my head (news to me) I went 
down the road to national chain dealer B who had one remaining in 
stock.  I was told I was lucky because according to their database 
they had no plans to reorder.  When I asked why he said they usually 
only see that when a product is being discontinued.  !!  What's up 
with that???  Is this true??  Please tell me I didn't just sink a 
grand into a machine that's going to have no support in a year.

Cheers,

Qwanta