"Any recent/newly minted PEs' here?"
Guilty as charged! I took the October 2004 test and passed; got the results last month.
The NCEES policy, dumb as it is, pertains to calculators with communications ability. ANY calculator with ANY port is verbotten. Even if the port is broken, even if you seal the port with epoxy (like I wanted to with my HP-28S), it's still a "no." Also, if the calculator has a QWERTY keyboard it's a no. So those dorks with the TI-92 or whatever that thing is are SOL. They've caught people cheating by either sharing/asking others in the test room via calculator communications.
That's the NCEES calculator policy in a nutshell.
You asking for advice and I will give you mine:
1. The FE/EIT is a nationwide, standardized test. It's the same everywhere.
2. The morning part is general, the afternoon part can be general engineering OR your major (i.e., Civil or Mechanical, etc.). You get to choose which you'll take in the afternoon right then and there.
3. Bring the 32SII and the 33S. Be completely fluent and comfortable with both (I brought two 33S' with me to the test - the proctors did, in fact, visually check them out). If you've studied properly, don't worry about what's on your calculator; they're not going to give you anything that can't be solved in a few minutes, by hand generally. (I can do a 3x3 determinant pretty quickely without a calculator, and that's about how difficult it'll be.) Also, the economics problems can be solved quicker by using the charts provided in the FE/EIT reference book if you don't pre-program your calculator (and with limited labels in the 33S, filling it with engineering economics problems is, IMO, wasteful).
4. Study, study, study. Do lots of problems (which I'm sure you've been doing). Get a lot of sleep; it's an endurance contest, too.
5. I do not expect the 33S to be in short supply nor do I expect them to be discontinued. As far as a run on them prior to the exams and the usual eBay vampires... I don't care. I bought my 33S' right after the April 2004 exams were over - since I figured that there'd be a glut of 'em then. I bought them direct from HP on the web and was happy.