It has been well known that MtGox takes weeks to months, possibly longer, to process USD withdraws, for far longer than 5 weeks. This won't be useful now, but

It has been well known that MtGox takes weeks to months, possibly longer, to process USD withdraws, for far longer than 5 weeks. This won't be useful now, but always check bitcointalk.org before dealing with an exchange. Coinbase is a better one to use, if you can use it. I would also recommend CampBX. This is biased towards an American perspective.