I've been throwing Prodigy for 3 months now (I was bagging eight different manufacturers' discs prior to trying out Prodigy,including an Underworld and a River), you "threw a friends" F7, so paradoxically and ironically this makes me some kind of 'fanboy' and you some kind of 'expert' on Prodigy. My skepticism gets riled when "every Prodigy disc thread there has been" piles on with "experience" such as yours, yet after 16 purchases, 3 months, and hundreds(thousands?) of throws later I've failed to see the urban myth of Prodigy's infamous inconsistency while you just have to throw a friends Prodigy a few times(it was more than once I hope anyway) and voila -Prodigy is all over the place with it's consistency. Science!