I've noticed that they are easy to strip as well. When I put mine back together after months of trying to fix it and ignoring it (well about a year and a half), I realized that I forgot to clean the inside of the faceplate, which accumulated tons of dust. I tried to remove one of the screws and got really annoyed. My dad realized that it was stripped after he tried to remove it. He said something about drilling it, but it could break the PSP. My faceplate is trashed and I was going to replace it from it being used when I bought it (it's even cracked at the bottom, but I have a skin covering it). I know how you feel though, the dust is driving me up the wall. I could live with the scratches until I bought a new faceplate, but the dust is something that drives me nuts. If anyone has a fix without breaking the PSP further (my wifi card stopped working and I thought the cats broke it, but that could have been a dream ) I would love to hear it.