Ah, okay. Thanks, fellas. Just wanted to make sure an update of some sort hadn't fallen through the cracks on my end, lol.
As to your question, according to their first blog entry back in May:
"You can reserve up to 5 Premiere kits right now but if we have 1701 members, 1701 people will get kits. If we fall short of that number we will come up with a system to allocate the rest."
In other words, the 1,701 reservations they're looking for aren't necessarily 1,701 individual orders but 1,701 units total.
From what I understand, if they actually get 1,701 people signed up on the reserve list then it would come down to one kit per person. If they don't get that many people to sign up, that would leave more to go around.
As to what you mentioned about the shorter shuttlebay, I look forward to seeing what they did with it.