Oh, thanks for reminding me... I edited the top post to include that... I forgot... the reason I took the car in was that the 4x4 warning light came on, and I took the car in for that, and also asked them to look at the alarm issue and others.

Thanks for providing the list... it seems like they mostly came up after 80k miles... in my case, my warranty would only be valid between current 45k and 75k miles in two years. (even though some of those items already appeared in my list too... so who knows.)

Yeah, a good thing about living in California weather is that your car stays better than it would in colder climate (like Canada where I moved to California from.) Even though we end up paying for it anyway, with high state taxes, housing prices, and traffic/etc.