Personally I don't like the set up. I much perfered the single breaker panel, however, if the problem that we had with it happened often then I can see why they got rid of it.
This year we were having problems with the cords going to our camera arcing, lukily this didn't hurt the camera. We traced the problem to the breaker panel were it was shorting the positive from the battery to the frame which then traveled to the camera mount, through the screws holding the camera board and back to the batteries through the wires that control the camera. If this shorting happened a lot then I can see why they got rid of the breaker panel.
Also, if you thought that 2004 was bad then 2003 would have caused you to cringe
