Soldato
As far as we have heard things are on schedule so nothing on the delay front. as for bugs I would love to think that AMD would take some serious time and effort in checking for these, after the whole TLB issue with the Phenom, so I wouldn't expect any major bugs with the early models, though that might just be wishful thinking! its been a long, long time in R&D so any major issues would be a very bad thing!
As for better than Intel, thats really not that valid when you look at the grand scheme of things for AMD, they are aiming Bulldozer at being very good at multi-threaded applications and server workloads more than anything else, so even if they don't outright take the performance crown from Intel in core vs. core performance (not relevant either, because the individual cores I would wager aren't intended to be compared to a rival core, since they take a very similar amount of die-space.), as long as Bulldozer is A) efficient B) good supply and C) very good at multi-threaded workloads (better than Intel) then I can't see it being anything but a success. Beating them in single-threaded workloads would just be a major plus, but as I pointed out I don't think thats the intention.
the second is much closer than the first! 
