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I had 60K miles on my 01 Rav4 when I scheduled an appointment for the recall regarding the ECM reprogramming. Before I made it to the dealer, the transmission started acting up. It behaved as if it didn't want to engage fully in 1st gear, then hard shifted into 2nd. Later it started double shifting from 2nd to 3rd. I stopped driving the car until I brought it to the dealer. After reading all the problems in this string, I was fearful of a transmission problem, but the dealer told me the reprogramming of the ECM would fix the problem. The car ran great for about 80 miles, then returned to the original problem with a check engine light. I had not had a check engine light prior to that. When I brought the car back I was told that I needed a new ECM(covered under the 8year/80K emissions warranty). Turns out there is a technical service bulletin(TC002-06) describing this very problem. I'm still waiting to get my car back, but I'm confident that was the fix. Hope this helps others with the same problem.