Chris is usually a bit loathe to sell off the older systems, if I remember correctly- never hurts to keep it around as a backup. Also, there are a number of PSOne games that won't work quite right with the software emulation used in the UK PS3s.
I want to see you people on Everybody's Golf: World Tour/ Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds- seeing as the UK and North America use the same servers for it we could have ourselves a nice little tourney.