I had actually gotten an e-mail from Aaron Hall after I contacted Malfador.com letting me know that february 15th is still the projected date.
I would guess, since Shrapnel is publishing the game for direct Online ordering, and not for 'bulk' retail sale, once the gold master disc is complete it shouldn't take long to start shipping orders- they will probably just ship them hot off the presses. (excuse the cliche)
Oh, and I also contacted
http://www.gonegold.com/releases/
and got a reply stating that information concerning SE4 Gold had slipped their attention. So there should be pertinent information showing up there soon.
[ 30 January 2002: Message edited by: Arak Koba ]