Got a very nice email this morning. Eovia is aware of the group names issue and will, I hope, be working on it. They also took the time to explain to me how the new selection tools are supposed to work. I like them. I can now do everything I used to do, and maybe a little bit more. I still don't see the point of the lasoo tool, however. Haven't been able to generate a selection case where it was actually helpful. I sent them a before-and-after of my messed-up UV's -- with luck they'll respond to that as well. So at this point, unexplained crashes and poorly documented features aside (there will always be some of that in any program), all I'm waiting on is for the UVmap and the group names problems to be cleared up. Then Carrara will be a usable tool again.