Totally understood. As a software engineer I've come across far worse situations, I can assure you. This is incredibly tame by comparison! After all, it's beta for a reason. Code complete, perhaps, but we just have to work out the quirks. Hopefully my play-by-play will help the developers out.

That, and PaulG has ensured I'm brainwashed for the foreseeable future. Empeg gooooooood. Gee, thanks a LOT Paul. ;-)

Some news for you: Windows Update just kicked in this AM, and I did get some app compatibility updates and a few other things. We'll see if that helps any.

But even if it does, I've got TCP/IP connectivity (don't know why I didn't think of doing that before but it's super quick).