ok, Wii is back, YEAH!!!
It was not a refurb. They actually fixed my unit, I could tell due to a particular mark I had on it.
It had all of my saved game content, but none of the channels. It was also still on the 2.0OS. So I had to upgrade to 3.1 and then redownload all of the channels.
Other than that it is perfect and I was only out a wii for 5 days!!