Quote - Intelligent Design?  Poser?  I was thinking more along the lines of Creationism.  ;0)

:-D   ;-)

Quote - On the other hand, this smacks of not correctly evaluating dependencies - one missed item is not checked for validity and the entire process collapses.

Could be.  Anyway - its a bug, and they should fix it. I can understand it didn't matter when nobody had more than 256 MB of RAM, but now everyone has 2 GB, even people who don't do 3D start having it.
Not to mention we're about to switch to 64 bit.