Ok i'm feeling slightly better about the 17-40L now, managed to snap a few test images in the front garden. The following are the full images, then 100% crops of the area where I tried to focus. Both are at F4.
100% crop is "as is", no sharpening, no jpeg compression.
17mm F4:
40mm F4:
And one more 100% crop at 31mm F4:
100% crop is "as is", no sharpening, no jpeg compression.
17mm F4:


40mm F4:


And one more 100% crop at 31mm F4:
