Rant: Aaaaargh! MiniSD keeps getting erased!

[GnatGoSplat]

I know it's my fault for being forgetful, but it's still frustrating nonetheless. I am cooking my own ROM so I make changes and reflash quite frequently. I've accidentally erased my 2GB MiniSD card probably a hundred times now by not remembering to take it out of the phone BEFORE flashing a new ROM.

Why is it the Apache erases its MiniSD card when flashing a new ROM anyway? My Wizard, Titan, Tornado, Excalibur, and other HTC phones leave the memory card alone, as they should!

On another topic, it's a shame HTC never enabled the gpsOne chip on the Apache. There have been people that tried to enable it, but I think it's never happening. They recently enabled it on the Titan, and it required a completely new SPL and radio in addition to drivers in the OS... drivers so different than before that it won't even boot without the new SPL and radio.