E61 - Memory Card Corrupt

I bought a Kingston 512mb MiniSD card along with my new Nokia E61. But after few hours, the data saved in it was inaccessable, and message was "Memory card corrupt".
I removed it put it back, and the message was still there. After few hours I put it bnack in, and now it worked (for few hours). I tried formating it in both FAT/FAT32 formats. But the card always remained accessable through Card Reader and not the phone.
I finally got it replaced with another piece and the problem was in there too, which makes me feel that maybe there is some compatibility issue with my phone. What do you suggest I try?

Hi, actually I came across the same problem as yours. I got the exactly the same SD card. In the beginning, everything works fine from the SD, after few days when I tried to run the applications installed on the SD, the phone showed me "system error (-1)", which means the phone cannot find the specified file/path. The solution is now to press the power button and choose the option of "remove mem.", then it works find until the next switch on.
And also it is frequently reboot or hang-up. I am think this should be the firmware problem, and really hope can update the firmware from PC or in other ways. This phone is right now the pain in the .... for me.

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    Don't panic! The solution is here!
    Your memory card is just 'locked', it isn't 'corrupted'!
    For sure, this post would be of great help to you, if:
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    Finding the solution really took me a lot of time. I was inspired by various posts on the Discussion, and decided to find the official notes on the issue. So would like to thank those who shared their tips, and helped us solve this problem.
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    . Yes, quite clear, but the quoted part ("enter the remote locking message as the password") isn't written on my E66's User guide, and there's a vague precaution on E65's, (refer to number 4).
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    . Yes, quite clear good E51, but I don't own you; I have E66 your little sister. I owe my memory card's survival to nice users on the Discussion.
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    . Quite interesting, but it contradicts what good E51 says in number three¡!
    . And it contradicts my own experience of the issue (and some other users' on the Discussion) too, since my E66's memory card accepted the 'first eight characters' of the 'ten-character long’ remote lock message that I had previously used to remote lock it.
    . The first three tips are quite important and shouldn't have been excluded from E66's and E65's user guides. I don't have the time to download and review all the user guides that support this feature, but at least I read some user manuals and also got the impression (from the posts on the discussion) that there had been not enough information on E66's, E65's, E71's, N96's, and some others.
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