I was in a bike shop a couple of years ago looking for something else when the bloke opened a drawer in the counter and lying in the back I spotted a set of XC Pro shifters. I snatched them out and almost kissed the bloke. Now after a good 12 or more years of use on three different bikes my original XC Pros have given up - the locking pawl on the LH shifter is allowing the toothed ring to rotate backwards, meaning that the shifter is effectively overcoming the friction built into the return movement. If I can find a way of reprofiling the tiny teeth on the pawl they might work again.
Meanwhile the new set are now on the bike and due for testing tomorrow night, so all I've got left is a rather manky set of Shimano XT shifters, which I don't really want to use as they're so big and ugly in comparison with those sweet compact little Suntour items.
Mickle, no use for your brakes though, sadly.....