If it makes you feel any better, blakerwry, I have a couple of boards (one Abit KT7A and one FIC AZ11E) that had leaky caps as well. A large percentage of Abit boards were affected by that particular problem because, while a great many OEMs (Asus, Tyan, Abit... the list is very, very long) used the substandard water-based caps, Abit put some of those caps particularly close to the CPU socket on their KT7x boards.
Chips with inadequate cooling were more likely to cause the water in those caps to sublimate, and that's how the caps end up leaking (or blowing off completely). Abit's chosen location for their caps led to Abit being a primary suspect for this problem.
However, there's no way of knowing, without direct examination of the caps in question, whether they are in fact substandard. Abit will replace the caps on any particular board for a mere $25 + shipping, however, or you can buy a kit and do it yourself for around $15 (er, jtr probably could. I certainly wouldn't want to try it).
I'm not trying to foul C's sale. The fact that he rode the board hard with an overclocked chip for as long as he did (two years, at this point), suggests it's probably not faulty. But hey, caveat emptor.
Incidently, from what I've read on slashdot, the water-based caps are being used as a cost-cutting measure in East Asia, and they are still in the channel over there for use in system boards, so it's possible that even the newest boards will be found to have this problem.
