I guess since I've always been a maintenance customer, I wasn't aware that they would allow non-maintenance customers to wallow in a version that wasn't stable, or had inherently weird anomalies.

I would like to voice my concern about that also. There should be some serious effort in getting non-maintenance customers a patch or whatever for each version so they can at least enjoy the version they paid for to its fullest extent.

And I'm like you, cadcam. There hasn't been a part I couldn't get good code for yet...