jay see six

absolutely. This game's online problems are downright unacceptable. I must say, however, that there has been less problems for me today than last night (or maybe I am getting used to them, which is never a good thing)

so far I've had:

problems joining parties
problems getting people to join my parties
unacceptable lag, players and cars disappearing and reappearing in random places(in online games of 2v2 even)
constant 360 lockups (which force resets)

I think my gang and I have found a workaround for the party joining problems. When you make a party, send you friends and invite using the GUIDE rather than the in-game party invite system and you should get better results.

Now, before you decide to hold off on buying saints row, I must add that even with all of the problems, online play is a blast. I will also add that it will be a real threat to Halo 2 once the online problems are fixed. Yeah, that's right, I said it. And I'm a Halo fanboy.

Pick this game up. Wait for the patch. Enjoy