Please take a moment and explain what the status of the horsepower issue is as of today. There's a million posts out there that I've read, but I'm still confused......Thank you for your patience and understanding.

read from here forward:
http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7863&perpage=20&pagenumber=11

basically, the story now is that there are issues with the ECU's governance when the car is on a dyno.