You're not alone Enhanced --Continental.com is 3 for 5 for me for improperly holding/ticketing reservations since being relaunched this summer.

Two of the three times involved buying an unrestricted Y --then thanks to the magic of continental.com of converting an unrestricted Y to a restricted/non-refundable Y, the fare rules changed. Then AU kicked in to upgrade the reservation to 1st class ...all before the ticket was actually charged to my credit card. As a result, I get emails from continental.com that say "oops, we haven't worked out the bugs in automatic upgrades for elites, sorry about that". After they send that email, the flights show online, but the fare-class and fare paid don't match up to anything real.

With the third time (not quite the charm), the fare class and fare itself would jump around each time I checked out the reservation online. One day it was a K class at $515, the next it was a Q class at $923, and even showed at one point as a $10 R (reward?) ticket for some time. Apparently that e-ticket reservation was haunted --and continental.com ended up mailing me a paper ticket with my originally-intended fare class and fare paid showing on the printed tickets.