Emega, I was surprised too, but pleasantly so. After a morning of frustrated searching around for lists of domains delet*ed* today (not just delet*ing*), this afternoon I broke down and forked over some money for a month sub to expireddomains.com. Worth it so far especially if this name pans out.
BTW if you're interested, I posted others I flagged as potentially of interest but didn't end up registering in the available domains section of the expired domains area.
Thanks for the answers so far.
ripley.