I'm sure the sole purpose and intent of the cup-holder fold-up thing in between the front passenger seats (appeared on MY00 or before) is to avoid you getting your hands in to get out anything else you may have stored there. Put it down to act has cup holder and it's even worse. Like spilt polo's (the sweets), or films for your camera, or ...

 

Well, it holds a tube of Pringles pretty securely

 

mine stores a few select CD's quite nicely