This morning I did one of my routine checks to see if the carrier Imp had returned to the market place for the US. It had indeed.
From the game market place it was not check marked as having been purchased and since I had deleted it after it stopped working it looked like I may have to fork over another 240 points. However, I went through my Download history and the 'redownload' option was still available and worked. I loaded up a game and the little Imp is back to working just fine.
I've been reading over this site for a little while now and while I don't have any other game tid bits to add I thought some of you might like to hear about the Imp's return.